The Startup Ecosystem Improvements: Why Entrepreneurship is Better in 2013 Than Ever Before

Jason Lemkin reflects on how the startup landscape has dramatically improved for founders between the late 1990s and 2013, highlighting three major shifts: the presumption that founder CEOs should remain in place, increased liquidity options for startup equity, and greater transparency in VC processes. He argues these changes have made it 10x better than 2002 and 3-4x better than 2005.