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Start-up is a firm which operates the business under five years through technology, internet, and so on as its product or process. In Indonesia, the amount growth of start-up significantly has been increasing year by year since 2012 from hundreds to thousands. It is also projected that the amount of Indonesian start-up will highly increase until 2020 which is up to ten thousands. This amount growth happens because the internet user is high among Indonesian citizen which is up to two hundred millions. Additionally, the use of internet was reported that will increase every year. Innovation is an important thing to be done in order to succeed since start-up is classified as a new comer to do the business. Besides, start-up commonly has a little resource in both financial and non-financial. Moreover, the risk of failure also can occur because of the business rivalry and other business environment changes. These circumstances force the employees to perform not only innovative working behavior, but also resilience since it can affect their mental, physic, and emotion in their work. The correlation between both variables is existed through literature study relating to them. Nevertheless, there is no research which correlates these variables so far. This research aim to determine whether there is a correlation between resilience and innovative working behavior. As a quantitative study, the methodology used is questionnaire which has collected data from 56 employees working in Indonesian start-up. The result of Pearson Product Moment shows that resilience has a positive and significant correlation with innovative working behavior (r = .572, p < 0.01). The more resilient employees to show, the more often employees perform innovative working behavior. Thus, start-up will get advantage if they can hire or develop their employees with innovative working behavior and resilience.