Certainly, though they need not be exclusive endeavors. You can launch a small business with the plan of growing it slowly into a full-blown startup. So you start with the near-term goal of paying your rent and food, and a longer term goal of doing much better. (The whole idea of planning to build a $1B company makes little sense to me. Rather, first build a $100k company, then turn that into a $1M one, then $10M, etc.)
Admittedly, this sort of strategy doesn't work for all kinds of startups, in which case you might start a related small business, and use it as a base to launch startups.
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Certainly, though they need not be exclusive endeavors. You can launch a small business with the plan of growing it slowly into a full-blown startup. So you start with the near-term goal of paying your rent and food, and a longer term goal of doing much better. (The whole idea of planning to build a $1B company makes little sense to me. Rather, first build a $100k company, then turn that into a $1M one, then $10M, etc.)
Admittedly, this sort of strategy doesn't work for all kinds of startups, in which case you might start a related small business, and use it as a base to launch startups.