I wonder how much of this is just a visibility issue. We notice this same thing here on this site, where every new idea seems to get immediately piled on with

I wonder how much of this is just a visibility issue. We notice this same thing here on this site, where every new idea seems to get immediately piled on with negativity. The feeling is that it didn't used to be this way, and many of us old timers will remember a time when new ideas were mostly met with encouragement and constructive criticism. But I bet if you look at the threads today and then, you might find that the absolute number of constructive, encouraging comments hasn't changed much at all. Rather, they are simply lost in a sea of negativity spouted out by the peanut gallery that seems to have washed in from other places where people dump all over tech news. We used to be conspicuously entrepreneurial here. Now we're a lot more representative of the tech world at large. So yeah, I think that there are still plenty of people with the right entrepreneurial mindset out there. It's just getting harder to find them.