20+ signs that your startup is already a startup

My five kopecks in the Friday piggy bank. In the life of each (successful) project, there comes a moment when this project enters the startup stage ( Wikipedia, the startup project stage : seed stage / prototype -> start / start -> growth / output). It seems that just a month ago it was still unsteady and undefined, and now it’s like cash flow, employees, and profits. And “another cool project” develops into a completely normal, albeit young, company.



In general, let's go, 20 signs that you already have a startup.



1. You are going with employees not in a casual pub, but in your office.

2. You print business papers not from friends and acquaintances, but on an office printer.

3. The words "primary", "USN" and "CSC" have ceased to be spells for you.

4. Even before the conclusion of the contract, you already know how much money you will earn from it.

5. The last paper you wrote on was another contract.

6. The month does not begin with the question “where to get the money from”, but with billing for work, paying taxes and wages.

7. Wages for some reason increased by the amount of all tax deductions.

8. You are not thinking about how to earn another amount of money, but how to spend it wisely on development.

9. You prefer to pay all bills by bank transfer.

10. Instead of starving for weeks, you are now not getting enough sleep for weeks.

11. When you manage to sleep, only gray money laundering schemes are dreamed of.

12. At the weekend, you “rest” because customers only work 5 days a week.

13. You cease to personally check in for all the documents, and send the courier.

14. Conversation with investors begins with sales, not the technological aspects of the project.

15. You offer the investor no more than 10% of the project.

16. Your beta testers are now paying you money.

17. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates now seem not gods, but simply stubborn businessmen.

18. To expand, you are already using the resources of your partners, not your own.

19. The company’s account starts spinning more money than on your personal account.

20. And yes, Friday beer turns from another rally into just Friday beer.

UPD

21. You can safely eat and sleep, and during this time absolutely nothing bad will happen, and if it does, then there is already an employee who, without your participation, will eliminate the consequences of this unfortunate incident (via Ruzin ).

22. Having come to the office, you first of all open not Skype and mail, but client-bank. (via GrandTim ).



Probably, such a project has almost every project. We share in the comments - we replenish this list.