[Tiksi]

I don't agree that all of these are exclusive to startups. In my experience, smaller, more laid back companies generally hit most if not all of these points. The company I'm currently with certainly does, except maybe #5, and it's been around for a couple decades.

To me this reads more along the lines of "5 reasons to work at a small company", and #5 is the only one that's more startup-specific, though there are companies out there that provide that too, and are not startups.

[lostcolony]

It's not even that. I've worked at a large company, but which ensured that small -teams- were given responsibilities and empowered to get things done, and these all applied. In fact, transitioning from that, to a startup, was a rather depressing experience, all the good in a startup I had seen in an enterprise environment, but much of the good in an enterprise environment (such as domain experts, full time IT, HR, etc, to handle issues you don't want to have to get sidetracked on) was lacking.