It may be sacrilege round here to disagree with pg but I dislike the appropriation of the word startup for this niche of companies. I think of all new businesse

It may be sacrilege round here to disagree with pg but I dislike the appropriation of the word startup for this niche of companies. I think of all new businesses as startups for the first couple of years. I think a better name for speculative high growth companies would be 'venture companies' which could have venture founders to go with the VCs that may fund them. That way the term would make sense for older companies if they hit a high growth phase.