It's a t-shirt not a startup. Given how much free or cheap infrastructural stuff is out there, and with services like web-based custom t-shirt printing services and PayPal, it's pretty easy and fast to do what he did. And it's not like he hand-made the shirt, mainly the logo image and even that is just a few words of text. I applaud him for seeing a money making opportunity and executing on it, but at the same time it's bad form to call this a startup. At most it's a dirt simple website and t-shirt, with a little glue and polish.
Agreed it's a form of entrepreneurship, and nothing wrong with using leverage for profit. All good stuff! I just find that calling it a startup is like calling a fish a shark. I mean, you could call a fish a shark, but it really isn't one, despite some similarities (live in water, fins, swim around.) And if the word fish meant the same as the word shark, there's no point having those as two distinct words. A distinction without a difference is existentially pointless.
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It's a t-shirt not a startup. Given how much free or cheap infrastructural stuff is out there, and with services like web-based custom t-shirt printing services and PayPal, it's pretty easy and fast to do what he did. And it's not like he hand-made the shirt, mainly the logo image and even that is just a few words of text. I applaud him for seeing a money making opportunity and executing on it, but at the same time it's bad form to call this a startup. At most it's a dirt simple website and t-shirt, with a little glue and polish.
Nothing wrong with using massive amounts of leverage for profit, it's definitely entrepreneurship.
Agreed it's a form of entrepreneurship, and nothing wrong with using leverage for profit. All good stuff! I just find that calling it a startup is like calling a fish a shark. I mean, you could call a fish a shark, but it really isn't one, despite some similarities (live in water, fins, swim around.) And if the word fish meant the same as the word shark, there's no point having those as two distinct words. A distinction without a difference is existentially pointless.