Are Top US Startups Really Startups? (om.co)

Veteran technology reporter and columnist Om Malik writes: Pitchbook, a data research company has come up with a list of top 14 most valuable startups in the United States. There are no real surprises -- they are all ranked by valuation and they all are valued at north of $4 billion. They are all household names -- barring Outcome Health and Samumed. And they have been around forever. They have thousands of employees and many have billions in revenue. What they are not is liquid on public markets. They have not IPO'd. In a different Silicon Valley, they will all be public companies and they won't be deemed startups. Revenue, growth, relative size, market share -- pick a metric (except for lack of profits in many cases) and you know they aren't really startups. So can we stop calling them startups -- and instead maybe call them VC-backed private companies -- otherwise the label startup loses its meaning.

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Re:Taking bids

[courteaudotbiz]

You forgot the hashtags to make sure your overhyped keywords are well publicized

Only if it leverages a #blockchain to enable an #IoT device to sync to the #cloud, thereby allowing you to #monetize #bigdata utilizing a #crowdsourced, "self-employed"(#gig) workforce.

FTFY

Now I am the one getting rich! XD

Proper link to the top 14 list

[Walking The Walk]

Pitchbook, a data research company has come up with a list of top 14 most valuable startups in the United States[om.co].

Here is a link to the actual list by Pitchbook, rather than linking to the reporter's own article on the subject. msmash, it would probably be good to update the summary to use that url for the first link, since that's where people will expect it to go.