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2. The number of startups has actually dropped dramatically over the years, not increased. The story you tell regarding yuppies and startups sounds good but is largely mythical, not based on the data, which shows new business formation plunging since the 70spic.twitter.com/FscURXvQBy
This is a common misconception. The number of new businesses has decreased, but only a tiny fraction of new businesses are startups. See the first section of http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
1 So per your definition, if you launch a barbershop with big dreams of growth and cash to make it happen, you’re a startup vs. if you bootstrap yourself while solving a hard problem with uncertain market size you’re not a startup?
Yes, if you launched a barbershop with a plausible plan for how it's just the first stage of something huge (a national barbershop chain for example), that would be a startup. I use the subjunctive because that hypothetical case describes 0% of new barbershops.
2. Regardless of startup definition, without any data backing your assertion, you’re asking us to believe that despite the absolute # of new businesses shrinking, that the percentage of founders with big dreams have exploded? That prior to 70/80’s people didn’t dream big?
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