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Startup stages & company states · Working

Lifestyle business

Also called: owner-operated business

ELI5

A business built to support its owners' preferred life and income.

Used in conversation

“A lifestyle business is not a failed venture startup; it has a different goal.”

Definition

A business primarily designed to provide sustainable income and autonomy rather than maximise investor-scale growth.

Here “Lifestyle business” means: A business primarily designed to provide sustainable income and autonomy rather than maximise investor-scale growth.

Pitch context

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Sources & evidence · 5

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.