Remember back in the good old days (2011) when being called a hipster used to mean something. You’d only listen to bands that ended in the word ‘club’, stencil moustaches onto mugs and mirrors and live exclusively off pulled pork in brioche buns like some bizarre, trendy version of Super Size Me. Ah memories. Only now all that intolerably kitsch stuff has bled into the lives of everyone else. Now I.T grads have fixie bikes and your mum’s bang into beard oil. There’s money in Hipsterism. Talking of money, now, consider the world of the start-up, the start-up founder, an entrepenuer with an air of cool (maybe) intertwined with a tad of ‘nerd’, you know the ones, they’re typically found at a destnation that begins with ‘Silicone’ and ends in ‘Valley’ or ‘Roundabout’. Mix the two…and so the start-up hipsters (Stipsters) were born. Here’s how to spot one in the wild. They’re Intern Wranglers See the bored looking barista struggling with the concept of a chai latte on his second month on the job. Intern. The lad eating Sainsbury’s Basics off of some bare brickwork outside an office building? Intern. Literally anyone whose suit trousers suggest they might have worn ...

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