A website is a place for your startup to advertise itself and it's products. And in many cases, the website is the product. A startup is a business. Pebble was

A website is a place for your startup to advertise itself and it's products. And in many cases, the website is the product. A startup is a business. Pebble was a hardware startup that had a website. Facebook was a software startup that offered a social networking website. As for what exactly a startup is, look no further than PG's own description: http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html