[kylec]

I don't know, but what actually happens is immaterial. All that matters is perception, and my perception (selection bias and all) is that starting or being involved in a startup seems much less risky than it did 5 or 10 years ago. I'm sure that there are lots of people at Harvard, Wharton, and Columbia that share this perception, leading to an increase in demand for programs about startups.

[gedrap]

We should aim to keep the mass media out of our perception, because all it cares about is generating clicks :)

They don't care about plain simple failures, but they are large part of startup life.

One day they will move on from startups to some other hot thing, just like they did with Bitcoin, Ebola, etc.

Don't believe the hype!