You know, a bunch of those aren't startups anymore, they're just businesses. Once you've found your strategy and are profitable, you're not a startup anymore, you're a business.
Twitter, Square, and Dropbox aren't startups anymore, they've been around for a while and are simply ordinary businesses.
He made a list of "breakout companies" and noticed most of them were startups that bridged the digital world with the real world. In my case the distribution was uniformly.
Perhaps do the same experiment yourself? Debating what is or what isn't a startup is not as valuable.
> Debating what is or what isn't a startup is not as valuable.
Says who? It's valuable to me, I'm tired of seeing everyone call every damn company a startup cause it isn't so. A startup is a company looking for a viable business model who's still burning cash looking. It's not a profitable business who's been around for years. Making that distinction, while a side tangent, is worth making.
You don't get to tell me which part of a conversation I find interesting enough to engage on. That's my decision.