You don't have to have access to startups, you can look at results. Maybe there are a bunch of stealth startups about to break through, but the only things the

You don't have to have access to startups, you can look at results. Maybe there are a bunch of stealth startups about to break through, but the only things the public hears about are groupon clones, photo sharing sites -- trivial apps with less of a business plan, less innovation, and less impact in the world than pets.com -- or biotech & green tech companies burning through massive government grants. The last startup to have much impact was probably twitter, and there hasn't been much else before or since in recent years. Groupon is big now, but in a couple years it'll probably be sold for fractions of a cent on it's acquisition cost to someone who thinks the brand name and mostly defunct email list still have value.