Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups

Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by javajosh on Saturday November 20, 2021 @08:57PM (#29293512)

I feel pedanticdirty pointing this out, but something can be a myth AND also not be believed. I bet most myths are like that. That said, your criticism is right on, because you're responding to the implicit synonym to the title: 5 things you believe that aren't true about startups. But the assertion that we believe them is false, and false is bad.

The correct title here would be "5 things that some people at some point in time may have believed that aren't true that we are dusting off for an original content listicle." Which I think has a nice ring to it!

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Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by ineedasername on Saturday November 20, 2021 @09:54PM (#29293784)

Sure, but we're not talking about Greek Mythology here. In this context, the semantic weight of "myth" tends to be in the sense of misconceptions that many people do believe.

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Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by javajosh on Saturday November 20, 2021 @10:24PM (#29293930)

I feel like I already agreed with you in my comment?

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Re:Five Myths About Building Billion-Dollar Startups by ineedasername on Saturday November 20, 2021 @11:11PM (#29294132)

I think it was just my pedantic side coming out as well. Probably unnecessary on my part. To be pedantic though, technically all comments here aren't strictly necessary. Though I should probably stop now: non productive hairsplitting is something I have to watch out for as I comment :)

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