> I've only ever heard of startup used to refer to a new business that hopes to become extremely scalable. I think the recent popularization of the Facebook st

> I've only ever heard of startup used to refer to a new business that hopes to become extremely scalable. I think the recent popularization of the Facebook story, Google rise to dominance, and Apple's romanticized origin story have all contributed to many people thinking of "startups" as isolated to tech or to high growth scalable business. But before this, the term "startup" was used to refer to many things. A chemical company goes through iterations of plant "startups", even while railing many hundreds of millions in capitol, that will only pay off after a decade of plant operation for example. Personally I don't like to think I'm starting a "startup", but rather founding a business.