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"Do the paperwork for creation" has only a passing resemblance to "found and fund."

"found" means to do the paperwork and setup a bank account. that's it. there's no deeper meaning.

"fund" just means putting some money into a bank account for it. you could fund a company with a dollar (and many people do, for symbolic reasons).

You have just enumerated the "passing resemblance" noted above.

Connotations matter.

i've done it multiple times.

believe me when i tell you a huge, huge number of wantrapreneurs never even get around to organizing an LLC and opening a bank account.

want to know why? it takes at least 10 hours of work and when faced with doing 10 hours of actual fucking work, most people won't.

"With reasonable hope of success" is an implied clause of the original sentence. You might have not considered this aspect.

At a certain point we have to stop beating around the bush and admit that being successful isn't something people are entitled to and it is something you actually have to work at.

Or course, no one is entitled to it. And I do think focusing on disadvantages can be a problem, and make it harder to succeed.

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