sed 's/vc_angels/bureaucrats_politicians/g' I recently attended a conference that billed itself as being focused on "entrepreneurship and innovation." One of

sed 's/vc_angels/bureaucrats_politicians/g' I recently attended a conference that billed itself as being focused on "entrepreneurship and innovation." One of the speakers was Aneesh Chopra, the "CTO of the United States" and the other was a representative of the inappropriately titled "Startup America Partnership." We were also treated to twenty minute stump by a Ben Nelson, the Senator that pissed off the entire state of Nebraska when he extorted pounds of pork in exchange for his vote on Obamacare. None of the speakers did more than illustrate that the bureaucracy they represented was/is antithetical to entrepreneurship and innovation, and I've never seen the energy get sucked out of a room full of energetic people more quickly.