Ok, so... Person A comes up with a term, let's call this term X. Other people start mis-defining X as something else, let's call it Y. Person B happened to t

Ok, so... Person A comes up with a term, let's call this term X. Other people start mis-defining X as something else, let's call it Y. Person B happened to talk about Y before person A talked about X. Therefore, your argument goes, person A's definition of X is wrong? Either I'm not following you, or your arguments are not following each other. Eric Ries doesn't advise against getting big fast. He advises to get big as fast as possible, where "possible" is defined by the product-market fit that's been reached.