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Startup vs Startupper - What's the difference?

startup | startupper |

As nouns the difference between startup and startupper

is that startup is the act or process of starting a process or machine while startupper is an entrepreneur who is a founder/co-founder of a startup.

startup

English

(wikipedia startup)

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • The act or process of starting a process or machine.
  • A new organization or business venture.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The attack of the MOOCs , passage=Since the launch early last year of Udacity and Coursera, two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.}}
    Antonyms
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    Etymology 2

    , describing a boot that starts up (reaches up) to the middle of the leg.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a kind of high-low or thigh-high boot worn by rustic people
  • a kind of gaiter or legging

    • Anagrams

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    startupper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (neologism) An entrepreneur who is a founder/co-founder of a startup
  • * Coloring Outside the Lines: Confessions of a Digital Native (page 60)
    • Of course, you could also rely on your own cash reserves, as many startuppers do with their second companies — Evan Williams, for example, used his windfall from selling Blogger to Google to buy out the investors in his new company, Odeo.