the.com/viability
the line where an idea stops being a dream and starts needing a business plan.
means the capacity of something to survive, function, or succeed on its own once support is withdrawn.
from from latin vita, life, filtered through french viable, meaning capable of living; originally medical, describing whether a newborn could survive outside the womb, before economics and startups annexed it.
medical originonce meant a fetus could survive premature birth
startup slangpitch decks use it to dodge the word profit
ecology useminimum viable population predicts species survival odds