since doing a startup isn't a zero-sum game; the market for startups has been growing since the crash was 10 years ago; I would hope we would have fully recover

since doing a startup isn't a zero-sum game; the market for startups has been growing since the crash was 10 years ago; I would hope we would have fully recovered to previous levels and then exceeded by now * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble