Joining A Startup Mugs

"Since we're a startup, we were hoping you would pay us to work here."

"Welcome to the startup. Here's your official beanie."

"Remember, we've got to dig down together as a team to create the right foundation that will benefit this entire project as a hole."

"I wonder if A.I. will inevitably become as tired and depressed as we are."

"The leadership team wants a catchy acronym for a new social media app they're calling Functional Applied Relationship Tracker. Any suggestions?"

'I think you are taking this elevator pitch way too literally'.

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

"We're a very small international conglomerate."

'We've financed three more startups for no fathomable reason.'

Bright Idea

'Ideas.com' desk with a 'come' tray and a 'gone' tray.

"When you've been here as long as I have, you'll start to burn out"

"I have no toys just yet. I have a concept of a plan for toys...toys like no one has ever seen before."

"Ambitions... to open an office on Mars. Kennedy Space Center."

Computer Hitching a Ride to Silicon Valley

Boom

Cartoon about having many investors for crowd funding.

"I wrote this one after my third startup failed. It’s called ‘I Got Yer App Right Here.’"

"Right here is your baby’s infrastructure, and in a month or so we’ll be able to see the analytics."

"The Internet startup had only enough cash for one more day. But, miraculously, the money lasted for eight days, until more venture capital could be raised."

'Looks like the perfect time to bring in our profit sharing scheme.'

"'Start a company, make money.' Your business plan may be missing a few steps in the middle."

"We'll analyze the only thing left to analyze: what people throw away."

'Those are my twins: NASDAQ and Dow. They were born at the height of the dot.com boom.'

"If I've got to work for a tyrant . . . I may as well work for myself."

"You're just gaming down there? Shouldn't you be issuing your first IPO for some billion dollar internet enterprise you've created?"

S.S.dot.com

'I begin to question whether this startup ever had venture capital.'

Dragon's den desk. 'I'm in' and 'I'm out' tray on desk.

"Never mind devices - we need to establish a 'bring your own funding' policy."

"I spent hundreds of dollars on a course for entrepreneurs then found out the fire in my belly was acid reflux."

And elevator with 'up', 'down', and 'pitches' buttons

"I'm appointing you head of marketing...your first job is to come up with something we can market...and to who??"

"Let me through, please. I know what the letters C.P.R. stand for."

Recycling bin for 'short term business plans'