Over the past 4 years I have advised startups at an incubator in a mid-size US city. During that time I have only seen 2 startups run into issues around licens

Over the past 4 years I have advised startups at an incubator in a mid-size US city. During that time I have only seen 2 startups run into issues around licensing and taxes that caused significant hurdles to their startup. However, in both cases I think the entrepreneur was largely using bureaucracy as an excuse for lacking product/market fit and personal sales skills... In my experience the issue of fewer startups being created is multi-faceted and has to do with lack of affordable healthcare options/healthcare tied to employment, changing attitudes toward risk across generations, student loan and housing debt, lack of awareness of entrepreneurship as a viable career path (and more).