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If you're working on it, wouldn't that make you the founder of a pre-launch startup?
Maybe, I won't consider myself a founder until it actually launches. Its not really a startup if you aren't funded and you haven't launched anything, its kind of just an idea that you are working on at that point. So that is where I feel I am at, I am trying to get something off the ground while keeping my dayjob.
It's still a startup if you aren't funded. If you haven't launched, that I'll leave up to a judgement call.