Startup isn’t a word

Yet

It’s mind-boggling to me that startup gets a red squiggly when you type it out.

Thanks to the PrtSc button

There are a lot of startups (citation: TechCrunch/VentureBeat/NYTimes.com/@APlusK).

There is a very, very big industry around startups which includes

• amazing investors-cum-bloggers like Brad Feld, Mark Suster and Fred Wilson.
• coolest investment hub, Angel List.
• some badass startup lawyers.
• a great organization for young entrepreneurs.
• startup service providers that provide valuable services that no startup founder thought was necessary until they weren’t able to focus on their product.
• non-profit organizations focused on building startup communities, like UP.co, a combination of formerly poorly-spelled organizations like Startup America and Startup Weekend.
• amazing free courses and free insights from dope founders on building a startup and scaling a startup and making your startup more lean.

And yet (AND YET) Microsoft and Google insist on adding a red squiggly to every mention of startup.

So I started to post on Medium — a startup founded by one of the coolest startup guys in the world — and the squiggle follows me.