A bit o/t, but I hereby nominate 'serial', as applied to 'entrepreneur' and/or 'founder', as the most pointless, irritating, and obnoxious word of 2007.<p>You don't describe someone who works a bunch of jobs as a 'serial employee'. You don't describe an athlete who competes in successive Olympics as a 'serial Olympian'. Etc.<p>This 'serial' business is nothing more than noise and puffery. 'Entrepreneur' tells me something, though not much. 'Successful entrepreneur' tells me a tiny, tiny bit more. 'Serial entrepreneur' tells me someone is a self-promoting git.<p>I even saw this term applied to PG in an article some weeks ago. Considering that PG has repeatedly written that a startup is kinda stressful, and something he'd be very reluctant to do again, I think that marked the time the term slipped into complete meaninglessness for me. (Note that PG didn't refer to himself that way, 'twas the idiot writer/reporter.)<p>Let's drop the adjective, and shun those who use it.<p>/rant