Talk:Startup studio

Merger proposal
Based on the recently contested PROD, I propose that Startup studio be merged into Business incubator. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 20:23, 9 August 2015 (UTC) [edited 20:37, 9 August 2015 (UTC)]
 * I put the original PROD on the article. The PROD was removed by a new user as their very first Wikipedia edit.  This article was discussed as a promotional article at WP:COIN, as promotion for Thibaud Elziere and eFounders, and the PROD was part of the cleanup process for COI editing. A merge-out would work, too.  John Nagle (talk) 03:26, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

I disagree. The term Startup Studio is a stand alone definition, with over 100 companies worldwide that call themselves a Startup Studio. See http://buildtogether.co/ and https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ROZs3GFZ4bHmeUC2qXk2piDCEdM0oaqJIoY1hDofw-w/edit?pli=1#gid=1241327342 to learn more. I am the co-founder of a startup studio myself www.wide-ventures.com. We are not a Business incubator as you propose User:Mangehrn —Preceding undated comment added 10:27, 18 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Removing the "mergeto" template three times is getting close to edit warring. Please don't do that. John Nagle (talk) 21:36, 19 August 2015 (UTC)

Hi guys. Sorry for nearly causing an edit war. But i still stand to my point, that the startup studio is a stand alone topic. Mangehrn (talk) 21:44, 19 August 2015 (UTC) The main difference is, that within a studio products are built. So startups aren't just receiving coaching and space. And alot of times, the studio develops their own ideas. It's not incubation. Its building or actually producing. Kind of like in a record studio.Mangehrn (talk) 21:47, 19 August 2015 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your input. My initial impression was that startup studios could be though of as a special class of business incubators and that it would be better to write about startup studios in a dedicated subsection of the Business incubator article. Anyone searching for the term "startup studio" could be redirected to that specific section. This merger proposal has now been open for 60 days. If there are no more comments in the next three days, I will close this discussion as not merged due to there being no consensus. --Dodi 8238 (talk) 14:26, 8 October 2015 (UTC)

Add new source, basic flow-chart and performance information of startup studios
Hello there,

I'm Attila Szigeti, author of Startiup Studio Playbook - which is based on a global research of startup studios, venture builders, and includes case studies, best practices about how such organizations work.

Please consider adding this book and my other research called Startup Studio Trends 2015 to the sources as it contains more details on the subject that the current Startup Studio Wiki page.

For example I propose adding a short description and flow chart: " Startup studios build multiple startups in parallel with internal resources, so it represents a shift from individual startup building to mass-startup-production.

The common steps of a startup studio are: "
 * 1) Take a core team & entrepreneurs in residence;
 * 2) Add a shared infrastructure & in-house funding;
 * 3) Generate ideas internally;
 * 4) Build multiple startups in parallel;
 * 5) Trash what doesn’t work, reassign team;
 * 6) What works spin off and get follow on funding;
 * 7) Grow. Exit. Repeat.

More info on the book: http://www.startupstudioplaybook.com/

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Also I created a global report on studios, called Startup Studio Trends 2015: I propose adding a section about startup studio performance: " "
 * Startup studios create more and more companies, +15% year over year;
 * On average, each studio creates 1 company per year, and this number is steadily increasing;
 * Portfolio companies employ almost 16,000 people;
 * There is a wide range of models and verticals represented;
 * Since 2008, studio companies have raised more than $4B;
 * Funding into portfolio companies has been increasing 48% year over year since 2010;
 * There have been 14 portfolio companies acquired, on average 3 years after their launch.

More on this: https://medium.com/@aszig/startup-studios-on-the-rise-34ec5ad8310d#.6q1qel4li https://gumroad.com/l/sssp1

Thank you, Attila attila@startupstudioplaybook.com

List of Startup studios
I'm removing the list of startup studios section for right now.

It was added and originally sourced to Medium, but it seems like it's inviting a lot of promotional edits. If you look at the edit history since it's been added, almost all of the edits to the article are people adding an unsourced studio to the list.

If someone wants to make a list of blue-linked startup studios (aka, only notable ones that have their own article), I think that would be okay to add. But otherwise I think the list becomes too open-ended, making it more of a directory than an encyclopedic section. - Whisperjanes (talk) 18:56, 16 December 2021 (UTC)