Startup or start-up may refer to: Booting, an initialization period that computers and electronics go through when first turned on; Project commissioning, the act of starting for the first time a technical installation; Startup company, a recently formed company; Startup.com, a 2001 documentary film about the dot-com start-up phenomenon; startup, the title given in some countries to Antitrust (film); Startup, Washington, a census-designated place in Snohomish County, Washington; Sign-on, when b… (More on Startup)