This may have been asked before but I couldn't find it in search.<p>When do you no longer call your company a startup? Is it when you have set policies and practices? Is it when you are profitable? Is it after x number of years of operation? Is is when you are no longer the jack of all trades and have people that do job x and are specialists? Is it when you have years of runway in the bank?
When you've found a repeatable, scalable business model. Two parts: 1) Product-market fit + Validation that customers would pay at your price point, and 2) A repeatable and profitable customer acquisition process.