> A startup as most people use the word means a comparatively small, comparatively young company that is designed to grow very big.
How many YC companies fit this definition? I thought the goal was to make the founders rich, which so far hasn't included growing into a big company.
Amer. Heritage: A business or an undertaking that has recently begun operation: grew from a tiny start-up to a multimillion-dollar corporation.
Note that's just example usage; startup doesn't denote a design to become a big company.
I thought the goal was to make the founders rich, which so far hasn't
included growing into a big company.
Could you defend your argument with evidence? Here's an example of company that "transformed": Microsoft.
Also, with only minimal snark intended: you're saying 37Signals is a "shrub"?
Re:Hire Family People
by menloparkbum on Thursday April 24, 2008 @08:57PM
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It wasn't an argument, it was a metaphor... :-/
Basically, the difference between a small business and a startup is like the difference between a shrub and a redwood seedling.
The metaphor isn't perfect, because occasionally companies are transformed from one to the other. But this is extraordinarily rare.