1. (GC) Start up the environment.
Venture capitalists are weighing in on the latest assessment of the start-up environment.
America owes its top ranking to pace-setting innovation matched only by Finland and the world's best start-up environment.
We wanted it to be more like a start-up environment, except we didn't have a start-up product.
"So I went from this small start-up environment to being part of a behemoth," she said.
"In a start-up environment, you cannot work a 35-hour week," Mr. Souquet said, referring to the time he asked his colleagues to work on a Sunday.
While the government is investing millions of dollars into landing pads overseas, the local start-up environment has no fuel (money), no navigation instruments (structure), or a runway to launch and get to those landing pads.
"The ability to have any balance in life -- whether it's hobbies, or spending time with your children before they're gone -- is very hard in the start-up environment," said Mr. Seifert, 39, a vice president at Becton, Dickinson, a medical-device maker in Franklin Lakes, N.J.
An added frustration for scientists in a lean start-up environment can be the limitations of the research.
If you find yourself described in this article, perhaps the next opportunity for you is in a start-up environment.
