You're making the same mistake as most, however, which is seeing "Google, Intel, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Boeing, any of them" as typical s

You're making the same mistake as most, however, which is seeing "Google, Intel, Apple, Facebook, LinkedIn, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Boeing, any of them" as typical startups. They aren't. They're the 1 in a billion exception - so for you to then talk of exceptions is... exceptional!