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Those are aspects of startups but not a definition. The best definition I think is Paul Graham's: "Startup = Growth" [http://www.paulgraham.com/growth.html]. There are many food delivery services that are just local businesses, not startups. The difference is growth, a startup looks to expand to multiple cities, states, and countries.

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I don't disagree with what you are saying and I probably should have not used the word "definition" in that sentence.

However the reason I used "definition" was because what comes to mind with SCOTUS and porn,[1] that is "we know it when we see it" in a sense that it can't really be defined in the traditional sense and probably never will be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it

Paul would strongly disagree with the idea that a startup is defined by a random list of traits and that you "know it when you see it". He very clearly defines a startup as a company aiming for (and potentially capable of achieving) a very high rate of growth.

Team composition is literally irrelevant.

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