founder
Definition
The entrepreneur who started a business. If multiple entrepreneurs were involved in the creation of the company, they are referred to as the founders. The origin of the word is that a founder originally meant a person who forges steel; similarly, the founder of a company is forging the new entity.
founder is in the Entrepreneurship, Management, & Leadership subject.
founder appears in the definitions of the following terms:
Pareto principle,
civil society,
entrepreneurial mode,
integrated circuit (IC),
member,
deferred dividend shares,
non-voting stock,
Dun & Bradstreet (D&B),
opening balance sheet,
core competencies
and
founder appears in the other term: founders' shares
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