That lasts until half those startups fail, and someone asks why that department has a 50% failure rate. Or until a startup needs to pivot, and they're not allow

That lasts until half those startups fail, and someone asks why that department has a 50% failure rate. Or until a startup needs to pivot, and they're not allowed to pivot because it's not in the business plan. Et cetera. Here in the Twin Cities startup scene, we talk a lot about enterprise-oriented startups (because what we have here is the richest concentration of Fortune 500 HQs in the world). On one hand, it'd be nice to get Target or 3M or someone to step up on investing and mentoring for our startups. But odds are the cure would be worse than the disease.