starter-upper

[Michael30000]

Hello everyone,

From the book Thank You for Being Late by Thomas Friedman.

If you want to be a maker, a starter-upper, an inventor, or an innova-tor, this is your time. By leveraging the supernova you can do so much more now with so little. As Tom Goodwin, senior vice president of strat-egy and innovation at Havas Media, observed in a March 3, 2015, essay on TechCrunch.com: “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles.

Is a starter-upper a person who creates a start-up, i.e. a new company?

Thank you.

 

[PaulQ]

starter-upper is an invented phrase - to me it implies "anyone who starts a business up - an entrepeneur."

 

[Michael30000]

Thank you, Paul.

 

[heypresto]

We occasionally, and casually, make up similar words:

Picker-upper = something or somebody who picks something up.
Fixer-upper = someone who fixes things.
Doer-upper = someone who does things up, or a house that's in bad condition, sold cheaply for someone to do up.
Maker-upper = someone who makes things up - like words like these.

There will be many more that I can't think of right now.

 

[Michael30000]

Thank you, heypresto.