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startupper

noun

Etymology

From startup + -er.

  1. inherited from *upp✻
  2. inherited from *upp✻
  3. inherited from upp
  4. inherited from up
  5. compounded as startup — “start + up”
  6. suffixed as startupper — “startup + er”

Definitions

  1. A person who is passionate and enthusiastic about the creation, development and…

    A person who is passionate and enthusiastic about the creation, development and preservation of startup companies.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA