Touche, but is this hyper growth in startups necessarily a bad thing, or just a bump in the road and a bottleneck to be overcome? Despite how mainstream tech e

Touche, but is this hyper growth in startups necessarily a bad thing, or just a bump in the road and a bottleneck to be overcome? Despite how mainstream tech entrepreneurship has become, and despite how many founders are not in it for the right reasons, I still believe (or hope) it's mostly noise and the best products and founders will always rise to the top. The US (and the world) still needs more entrepreneurship to stay competitive, though perhaps not in its current model/form, and we haven't yet reached the point of diminishing returns in my opinion. This is a tangent to your main point, but TechCrunch had a pretty good piece on how YC tries to tackle this problem: http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/02/yc-y-combinator-scaling/ http://techcrunch.com/2012/04/02/yc-y-combinator-scaling/