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Jerrid Grimm
by Jerrid Grimm
September 18, 2015

You Know You Work at a Startup When…

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1. Your foosball skills have gotten BETTER since college

 

2. You don’t have a business model and you don’t feel it’s a “major concern”
Ferris

 

3. You think that Snapchat is soooo April 2014
Snapchat glasses

 

4. You own an unreasonable number of plaid shirts
Plaid shirts

 

5. Your sense of style could be described as “fancy lumberjack” while your facial hair could only be described as “homeless”
Hipster Lumberjack

 

6. You didn’t even know that SxSW had a music portion

What

 

7. Your dream car isn’t a Ferrari or a Maserati, it’s a Tesla

Tesla vs ferrari

 

8. You think that the show Silicon Valley should be considered a documentary

Silicon Valley

 

9. When someone asks you to name the three different types of clouds you say “AWS, Azure and Google Cloud”

Clouds AWS

 

10. You ended a friendship because of a mobile web vs native app argument

friends-fighting

 

11. You broke up with a girlfriend/boyfriend once because they still had a Blackberry

Dawson crying

 

12. When you say your team is agile and great in a scrum you aren’t talking about rugby

Scrum

 

13. You have no idea how you communicated before Slack

slackbotbot bathroom

14. On your last holiday you took a recommendation from someone you’ve never spoken to (Tripadvisor), got a ride from someone you didn’t know (UberX) and stayed in someone’s bed that you’ve never met (AirBnB).

Uber

 

15. You’re super proud that your last startup failed so quickly

baby fist pump

 

16. You pivot more than a gold medal figure skater

Figure Skater

 

17. You’re more familiar with Ashton Kutcher’s investment portfolio than his acting career

Ashton Kutcher idea

 

18. The only petition you’ve ever signed was in support of Uber

Save Uber Petition

 

19. You would consider The Lean Startup the most recent “Great American Novel”

Great American Novels

20. You’ll share this post because everyone you hangout with now is also in a startup
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Have something to add to the list? Share with the hashtag #startuplife. Want to work at a startup? Here are 10 reasons why maybe you should.

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