The creators of FounderLY would have done well to look up the definitions of “to founder.”
I’m thinking specifically of “to fail utterly, collapse.”
Via TechCrunch.
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"To founder", often expressed as "to flounder." Drove my ex to distraction, but a common confusion.
Posted by: mike | April 07, 2011 at 08:39 PM
Memo to new companies: look up all synonyms of "fail" in the thesaurus BEFORE you pick your name.
Posted by: Ben Trawick-Smith | April 08, 2011 at 01:15 PM