How to Use start-up in a Sentence

start-up

noun
  • What are some of the early tasks of this ‘start-up’ phase?
    Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 19 Sep. 2024
  • As with any start-up, there’s no track record to refer to.
    Nicolas Stecher, Robb Report, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Two in five, or 41%, struggled to access start-up funds to get their business off the ground.
    Cleo Krejci, Journal Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2023
  • By his own admission, his first start-up, Loopt, was a bust.
    Gerrit De Vynck, Washington Post, 9 Apr. 2023
  • The default start-up mode is GT, which makes 80 percent of the power and torque available.
    Angus MacKenzie, Robb Report, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Of course, this is no ordinary sedan, and no start-up restoration house.
    Ben Oliver, Robb Report, 18 June 2024
  • Armstrong started her blog in 2001 while working at a tech start-up.
    Catherine Garcia, The Week, 10 May 2023
  • In the aftermath, start-ups tried restricting sales of their stock.
    Erin Griffith, New York Times, 6 May 2024
  • Samii had just spent the night playing poker with tech friends from a start-up company.
    Susan Young, Peoplemag, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Many start-up distillers, eager to get a product on the shelf to sell while whiskeys age, aim to make a near-tasteless vodka.
    Ryan J. Rusak, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Michael then went on to work at aerospace start-ups, including SpaceX, in and around the Los Angeles area.
    Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2023
  • And dozens of start-ups pitched AI assistants, avatars, coaches, and tutors.
    IEEE Spectrum, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Cocoon, Sealy’s answer to the many mattress start-ups that have popped up in the past few years, is a worthy competitor.
    Jake Smith, Glamour, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Amazon is a far cry from the book e-tailer start-up founded in Bezos’s Seattle-area garage in 1994.
    Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023
  • Picking the right one depends on the nature of your business (among other things), since what works for a tech start-up might not fly for a food truck.
    Jasmin Suknanan, CNBC, 16 Aug. 2024
  • Fubo launched in 2015 as a start-up focused on streaming sports programming.
    Brian Steinberg, Variety, 16 Aug. 2024
  • These are the models of well-being promoted by Fella Health, a start-up that prescribes buzzy weight-loss drugs to men.
    Callie Holtermann, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2024
  • A number of start-ups, including Ezra and Neko Health, also offer full-body scans.
    Elizabeth Dwoskin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Time management has been a huge part of building this start-up alongside my schoolwork.
    Leah Campano, Seventeen, 25 May 2023
  • Its mission is to ensure that youth leave the clubs ready for a career, a start-up business and homeownership.
    Jennifer Dixon, Detroit Free Press, 31 Aug. 2023
  • Ford attributes the losses to the growing pains of what is says is a start-up business in the venerable company.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Still, the kingdom’s human rights record remains an issue for some Western partners and start-ups.
    Kate Rooney,kevin Schmidt, CNBC, 22 Sep. 2024
  • But that hasn’t stopped a myriad of DTC start-ups from selling the stuff to customers with the hopes of expanding their lifespans and managing their weight.
    Ali Finney, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2023
  • Meanwhile, researchers and start-ups are pushing psychedelics forward on the medical front.
    Jane C. Hu, The Atlantic, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The Texas Tech grad also spent years working for a public relations and advertising firm and at a tech start-up.
    Marin Wolf, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023
  • An engineer at a biotech start-up fights an attraction to the man planning a hostile takeover of her company.
    Becky Meloan, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
  • If the state approves, construction would begin later this year, with completion and start-up in 2026.
    Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 8 Aug. 2024
  • The hub provides co-working space and small offices for up to 30 start-up or small businesses, along with printing and mailing services, a wellness room and a cafe.
    Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
  • But unlike his business ideas, the world has moved on without him, and Dan has turned Bonus Life into a successful supplement start-up, making it into the top 30 under 30 list of young entrepreneurs overnight – living the life Moritz always wanted.
    Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 19 Nov. 2024
  • French start-up La Vitre is connecting teams across different locations with a human-size screen that can be used for everything from fittings to sales appointments — and luxury brands including Chanel are already on board.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 26 Nov. 2024

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