Founding
Founding noun - The act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new.
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Synonyms for Founding
Source and founding are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Source" instead a noun "Founding".
Source
Source noun - A point or place at which something is invented or provided.
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- One of Valve's founding principles was to do that opposite of id Software, whose release of source code was a combination of throwing the fans a bone and Carmack showing off his programming genius.
Source: Approval of God - The source of this belief (in her case, a distorted version of the Trust's founding) is unimportant; the end result of her driving away anypony foolhardy enough to tell her that the weight of the world isn't actually on her shoulders is.
- This tends to go with regarding one's career as a deeply serious matter too and is a prime source of humour on The Apprentice (the British version at least) - contestants who make out that their unremarkable junior management positions were the equivalent of founding Google or Microsoft.
Source: Serious Business / Real Life
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