I&#x27;m not sure if a lifestyle business is seen as a degrading term when hurled at someone.  The only people it&#x27;s a lifestyle business for is people who already have the lifestyle of not necessarily having to work - investors.<p>What we have left is a term that&#x27;s used to whack people who could add value in a lot of way to only think they can do it if a VC gives them their blessing of worth, validation and permission to innovate.  I don&#x27;t think that&#x27;s accurate or fair to anyone.<p>For entrepreneurs, there is no lifestyle business, or owning a business until it can run without you.<p>There are plenty of SaaS businesses in the $1M to 5M&#x2F;yr range that would be perfectly suitable &quot;failures&quot;.  To me, it doesn&#x27;t seem unprudent prudent to collect a few of these &quot;lifestyle failures&quot; and be ready to build the $100M company instead of taking moonshots without any experience in building a business.