What is a founder?
A startup is an innovative transformation of an idea into a company. The idea could be a product, service, process, business model, technology or a new way of doing business. The whole process a startup takes has many phases, and it’s not easy to go from an idea to a product or company. So it’s important to know what a?startup founder?is, how they work and what a founder’s role is.
A founder of a startup is a person who gives the startup its initial life through time, money, energy and other resources. The founders are the ones who create the vision for the startup and make it a reality.
Typically, a startup is a company working on a business model that is at risk of failing. In other words, a startup is a company that has not yet proven that it can make money. Therefore, all startups are in high-risk situations. The more risky the business model, the higher the potential for significant financial gains. However, the chances of losing time, money and energy are also higher.
If one thing is sure, it’s that founders are risk-takers. They are risk-takers and want the freedom to bring something to life in a way others can’t see.?
Risk is not an easy thing to deal with. However, if founders were not ready to take risks, we would never be able to use the things that bring meaning to our lives. Founders see past the hardship to bring an opportunity for people. Through their creative process of creating a product or service, they indirectly create an entire ecosystem to support the idea they brought into the world.?
Look at the computer and the ecosystem that got created because of those founders. From jobs to careers, new startups, companies, mining, manufacturing, training, and support, entire industries were born from an idea. Even the internet was birthed from the original seed to create a computer.
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From ancient times a foundry is where metal casting work is done. A foundry is a factory that usually manufactures metal products; it takes iron or other metals and shapes them into various objects (for example, the parts of a computer or parts to make a computer.
A founder is similar to a foundry; in their mind, they take thoughts and ideas and shape them into products or services for people to use. These people then proceed to build and advance cities, countries and even the world.
These individuals are people that found an idea and believed in that idea with so much passion that they worked tirelessly to manifest the thought that appeared as neurons worked in their brains.?
Founders are people that found an idea traversing the neuron network in the brain, held on to it and founded all the things we use today. When they plant what they find, like a person that plants a fruit tree seed, it produces fruit and more trees to bear even more fruit.?
So what is a founder? What is it about a person that found a way to take the idea that resulted from neuron activity, that made them take risks on that idea and build something for the rest of the world to use??
Perhaps they are people that caught something flying through their mind and did something about it; what have we let slip through our mind that, if we caught it, would allow us to build the next advancement as a founder?
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1 年Interesting to compare the startup founder to the foundry.
"Never deny, rarely affirm, always distinguish"
1 年Reminder: the founder's talent may not always extend to the process of commercial operation of the business initiative. (There are and have been exceptions to this observation)