[devwastaken]

At the end of the day startups are not there to be successfull on their own. You birth a baby, raise it, then sell it and watch as your metaphorical child becomes everything it shouldn't have been. You might have money, but the corp you sold it to owns that intellectual property.

For long term businesses to succeed on their own we have to remove intellectual property laws. Allow for actual innovation not barred by vertical integration and oligopoly cronyism. The current system rewards whoever buys all the startups that develop IP. Sometimes the horde of lawyers force them into it.

The other reason is that it takes a team, and few are ready or believe they can work in startup conditions. Or theyre devs that got in early with another corp and truly do not know what it's like to build a foundation. The specific expertise necessary is also difficult to source.