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# [You Know You Work at a Startup When… – Pressboard](https://www.pressboardmedia.com/magazine/you-know-you-work-at-a-startup-when)

 Written by [Jerrid Grimm](https://www.pressboardmedia.com/magazine/author/jerrid-grimm) | Sep 18, 2015 7:00:00 AM

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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” <https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Ferris-2.jpg>

 

##### 3. You think that Snapchat is soooo April 2014 <https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Snapchat-glasses-2.jpg>

 

##### 4. You own an unreasonable number of plaid shirts <https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Plaid-shirts-2.jpg>

 

##### 5. Your sense of style could be described as “fancy lumberjack” while your facial hair could only be described as “homeless” <https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Hipser-Lumberjack-2.jpg>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/What--2.jpg>

 

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

#### <https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Tesla-vs-ferrari-2.jpg>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Silicon-Valley-2.jpg>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Clouds-AWS-2.jpg>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/friends-fighting-2.gif>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Dawson-crying-2.jpg>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Scrum-2.jpg>

 

##### 13. You have no idea how you communicated before Slack

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/slackbotbot-bathroom-2.jpg>

##### 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).

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Uber-2.png>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/baby-fist-pump-2.jpg>

 

##### 16. You pivot more than a gold medal figure skater

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Figure-Skater-2.jpg>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Ashton-Kutcher-idea-2.gif>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Save-Uber-Petition-2.jpg>

 

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

<https://www.pressboardmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Great-American-Novels-2.jpg>

##### 20. You’ll share this post because everyone you hangout with now is also in a startup

> ##### [Click to Tweet this post](http://ctt.ec/cMee6)

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](https://www.pressboardmedia.com/10-reasons-you-should-join-a-startup/).

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