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20 Signs You're All About Startup Life

You're innovative, ambitious and proud – just like those that consider themselves to be a part of The Fifth Estate, coming to a theater near you October 18.

1. You share your bed with your electronic devices more often than with your significant other.

2. Your general M.O. is "pounce first, apologize later."

3. You've got heaps of SWAG... the promotional kind.

(But the confidence kind, too!)

4. Your power move is the almighty breakfast meeting. No... brunch. No... lunch.

5. The only thing that really gets a rise out of you is when someone attempts to knock your hustle.

6. You live and die by jamming it out on whiteboards.

7. You are constantly praying to your angel... investors.

8. When someone influential interacts with your product or organically promotes your brand, you're all like...

9. You've conditioned that brilliant brain of yours to weather any storm.

10. You think everyone should be able to code – except you still haven't signed up to learn how because you just don't have the time before you launch out of beta.

11. Putting together a functional workspace in an unconventional place is not exactly challenging to you.

12. Strategic buzzwords get priority autocorrect in your phone.

13. You can't remember the last time you actually paid for a snack.

14. You don't need an alarm clock – that's what Google Alerts are for!

15. You can properly harness the power of a single hashtag to create a whole zeitgeist.

16. What's a cubicle? Working open plan is so much more collaborative.

17. In fact, who said you needed to have a chair to get work done at all?

18. Except you know you're actually most productive when lounging in a space like this.

19. You know you're doing it right when you have support among your peers instead of cutthroat competition.

20. You know your future keynote speech is TOTALLY going to slay.