My position is the government should make things neither easier nor harder for startups. Let natural selection do its thing. Startups that have marketable memes will raise the capital they need. Startups without such memes will not. The extremes of dishing out tax payer money on grants to questionable startups often just wastes money the government could otherwise use for things like paying down the deficit. The extremes of "squelching" business works in a negative direction as well, because it hurts the GNP. I think the government should neither give hand-outs to startups, nor should they work against business, such as in the anti-trust suit against Microsoft. The government should live and let live when it comes to startups and software companies in general, and let natural selection do its thing.