Re:YC’s Essential Startup Advice
by SkyMarshal on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @02:23PM
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>Do you honestly believe nobody used the term 'start-up' before Steve Blank or Paul Graham used it?
Did I say that somewhere or are you just straw manning me?
My post and paulsutter's are clearly referring to the Silicon Valley idea of a startup, not the general idea. The difference is one of intent, so it is useful to distinguish between the two.
Someone who opens a diner or a watch repair shop or a Kinko's franchise with the intent of servicing their locale is certainly doing "a fledgling business enterprise" and thus may technically be doing a startup. But SV is specifically interested in greenfield endeavors that can leverage the web or other new tech to find a large customer base and rapidly scale to billion dollar+ valuations.
Given your long history on HN I know you know this so why are we bickering over semantics?
Did I say that somewhere or are you just straw manning me?
My post and paulsutter's are clearly referring to the Silicon Valley idea of a startup, not the general idea. The difference is one of intent, so it is useful to distinguish between the two.
Someone who opens a diner or a watch repair shop or a Kinko's franchise with the intent of servicing their locale is certainly doing "a fledgling business enterprise" and thus may technically be doing a startup. But SV is specifically interested in greenfield endeavors that can leverage the web or other new tech to find a large customer base and rapidly scale to billion dollar+ valuations.
Given your long history on HN I know you know this so why are we bickering over semantics?