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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Through the new program, non-EU citizens can invest a minimum of 250,000 euros in a Greek start-up in exchange for a five-year residency permit.
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Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026
Yet their biggest guests are sometimes the most niche—like Soham Parekh, an Indian software engineer who became X’s main character for a day after he was caught working for multiple start-ups at the same time.
—Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 8 Jan. 2026
The series’ focus on the machinations of asset management and wealth hoarding — banks, investment funds, start-ups, the stock market, all the ways people with resources find ways to deny them to others — remains firmly in place.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
In the south, Shenzhen was already doling out $70 million a year to support local AI firms and research, while Chengdu, in the west, invested $42 million in a start-up called Zhipu AI to bring a new model-training center and research facility to the city.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
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Brittany Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Jan. 2026
Yet their biggest guests are sometimes the most niche—like Soham Parekh, an Indian software engineer who became X’s main character for a day after he was caught working for multiple start-ups at the same time.
—Julia Black, Vanity Fair, 8 Jan. 2026
The series’ focus on the machinations of asset management and wealth hoarding — banks, investment funds, start-ups, the stock market, all the ways people with resources find ways to deny them to others — remains firmly in place.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
In the south, Shenzhen was already doling out $70 million a year to support local AI firms and research, while Chengdu, in the west, invested $42 million in a start-up called Zhipu AI to bring a new model-training center and research facility to the city.
—Michael Schuman, The Atlantic, 3 Jan. 2026
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“Start-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/start-up. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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