Well we are really 4 french guys, we are located in Paris in a small office. This is not a wordpress, but a prestashop and the theme is not generic. And the stuff that is innovative is that all the products are created by the community using the studio (http://www.stickaz.com/en/studio).
Have a look at http://www.stickaz.com/en/info for more infos about the Stickaz concept.
Tell me if you find similar businesses (appart from sites that let's you decline an image on mugs or t-shirts). Hope you look at it with a different angle :)
PS: we know puxxle, we existed before them and there's no user generated content on puxxle.
What pfisch is saying, selling stuff on the Internet is not a startup. E.g. if I'm starting a flower shop business, that's not a startup, that's just starting a business.
The difference between a startup and a business is that a startup is usually trying to solve a problem (often through the use of technology, a.k.a. hi-tech) in the hope that the "invention" pays off. These sorts of high risk businesses often don't get loans from banks. That's where investors come in.
So, as pfisch is saying, selling stickers on the Internet is not a startup.
I hope you guys do well. It looks like a well executed project.
It definitely looks like wordpress, and it says it is wordpress and prestashop on the bottom. Also prestashop looks like it is just an ecommerce plugin.
Did you guys take VC money or something? This just looks like a normal business to me. I mean I run a small business that makes mobile apps. Is that a start up as well? Is any kind of business with a website that sells something a start up?
As much as I agree with the whole discussion surrounding the definition of a startup, your arguments are weak and pointless to say the least.
Would this company be more of a startup if their website was powered with a custom made app written in Erlang on the backend and Haxe on the frontend? ...
Would this company be more of a startup if they could lure some VCs to invest in them? ...
Please come back to earth and provide constructive comments, or better arguments, like pan69 did [1].
PS: we know puxxle, we existed before them and there's no user generated content on puxxle.