start-up
noun
variants
or startup
often attributive
1
: the act or an instance of setting in operation or motion
2
: a fledgling business enterprise
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Founded last December by Chinese tech entrepreneur Ning Hu, an Alibaba and Google alum, the U.S.-based start-up now operates with teams across New York, Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and Seattle.
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Denni Hu, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2025
Layoffs have hit nearly every organization that makes this kind of audio, from corporate behemoths like Spotify to successful start-ups like Pushkin Industries to the public-radio godfather of it all, This American Life.
—Eric Benson, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
Many Fears of an AI bubble had hit a fever pitch at the start of this year when Chinese start-up DeepSeek released a competitive reasoning model.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
With new chatbot safety controversies cropping up regularly, AI start-up Anthropic has updated the usage policy of its Claude chatbot to clamp down on one potentially disastrous use case.
—PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2025
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Denni Hu, Footwear News, 19 Aug. 2025
Layoffs have hit nearly every organization that makes this kind of audio, from corporate behemoths like Spotify to successful start-ups like Pushkin Industries to the public-radio godfather of it all, This American Life.
—Eric Benson, Rolling Stone, 18 Aug. 2025
Many Fears of an AI bubble had hit a fever pitch at the start of this year when Chinese start-up DeepSeek released a competitive reasoning model.
—Dylan Butts, CNBC, 18 Aug. 2025
With new chatbot safety controversies cropping up regularly, AI start-up Anthropic has updated the usage policy of its Claude chatbot to clamp down on one potentially disastrous use case.
—PC Magazine, 16 Aug. 2025
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“Start-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/start-up. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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