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Actually, the Wikipedia definition is also pretty useless. What's a "limited operating history"?

Steve Blank put it best: "a startup is an organization formed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model"

You could be searching for a repeatable and scalable business model in a week-end, which would be awesome. Most people don't, and I find it really irritating that these projects get called startups.

Suppose we could change that definition, it is wikipedia after all.

i guess a computer scientist isn't a computer scientist unless he or she has a piece of paper to prove it