"Perhaps even more worrisome, innovators are starting firms at half the rate they did 15 years ago. And those businesses that are starting up are finding it difficult to expand into new opportunities as quickly as they have done in the past. Young firms are finding it tougher to go public (and the bulk of new job opportunities come when firms five years old or less go public). America was once the world’s Startup Nation. Not so anymore. And why are startups so important? They happen in America."
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442864/economic-growth-business-startups-entrepreneurs-wall-street-main-street-capitalism
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/442864/economic-growth-business-startups-entrepreneurs-wall-street-main-street-capitalism