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> Startup is a word reserved specifically for exponential growth businesses usually juiced up with VC cash.

What? Reserved? I’m not sure where you are getting your info. personally I like Steve Blank’s definition:

“a startup is a temporary organization used to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.”

Startup is just a word that means different things to different people. I do agree that not everything seems like a startup to me. Then again, what anyone else is calling whatever their endeavor is really is none of my business.



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