From single founders with no team to some of the biggest tech companies in the world, our definition of “startup” is extremely broad — and very unclear.

While most people wouldn’t put Uber and Facebook in the same category as the apps and games and services being hatched in co-working spaces across the country, they’re all still referred to as startups (and sometimes seen as "start-ups").

So what is a startup company, anyway?

Perhaps the most popular definition of a startup meaning is from Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup methodology:

Startups.com Co-Founder and CEO Wil Schroter has his own definition of what ...