Honestly, I think we would do well to dispose of both "founder" and "startup".
We had words for this. "Small business" and "Small business owner".
Honestly, I think we would do well to dispose of both "founder" and "startup".
We had words for this. "Small business" and "Small business owner".
They are not the same. Per VC culture, small business owner is a looser, tunning lifestyle business. They produce useful products in competitive markets and nurture relationship with customers.
Startup is meant to become monopoly and does not have to have good economics before abusing monopoly power. Competition is for loosers. It is about disrupting, not about building.