I’ve always understood the distinction between “startup” and “small business” to be potential to scale and probably also potential to scale quickly. A cafe for

I’ve always understood the distinction between “startup” and “small business” to be potential to scale and probably also potential to scale quickly. A cafe for example can scale to be a well run efficient cafe, maybe even opening additional locations. Scaling a cafe chain globally is a generational endeavour with a staff of tens of thousands. A company that makes cafe POS software can scale to thousands of cafes globally with a few years with less than a hundred staff.