The Geek Tank

Thanks to the visionary behind this magical gadget, Steve Jobs. I like to think of Steve Jobs as the old school version of what the 21st century with millennials in the work force are like today: Hipster type geniuses who have helped create the world of start-ups wearing hoodies, skinny jeans and Warby Parker glasses, even Warby Parker is a startup! Mostly in the tech industry like Apple, but these days the world of start ups have now branched off in every type of industry. I feel like Steve Jobs is the 1970's version of the world of startups today: He started building his Apple empire with Wozniack in the garage of his home in Palo Altos, California. Along with being a genius and changing the technological world forever, he seemed like a hippie who admitted he experimented with LSD, smoking marijuana and he was known to look eccentric as he walked outside of his garage with his underwear hanging out of his jeans and barefoot. I feel like startups are similar because it's also a young group of people who have an innovative idea and instead of starting their own business in their garage they rent space in an office and create a small and innovative company that they hope will thrive with an idea in mind that will change the world forever. Apparently the definition of startup is pretty vague and somewhat open for opinion. When I googled it I came across an article that states how to tell if a company is a startup or just small business. It is a startup if the company is very small and after about 5-10 years it is no longer considered a startup anymore. There are more details to decipher whether a business is a start up and I found this very compelling article from Forbes that explains all the bullet points of what constitutes a startup. You could read it here: the world of startups.