Alternative spellings

• start-up

Noun

Singular startup

Plural startups

startup (plural startups)

1. the act or process of starting a process or machine
2. a new organization or business venture

Antonyms

• shutdown

Startup or start-up may refer to:

• Booting, an initialization period that computers and electronics go through when first turned on;
• Commissioning, the act of starting for the first time a technical installation;
• Startup company, a recently formed company;
  • Startup.com, a 2001 documentary film about the dot-com start-up phenomenon;
  • startup, the title given in some countries to Antitrust (film);
• Startup, Washington, a census-designated place in Snohomish County, Washington;
• Sign-on, when broadcasters start transmissions on a day.