"During the dot-com bubble, you needed $5 million to do stupid ideas. Now you can do stupid ideas for 12 grand." - Guy Kawasaki

He has an interesting way of looking at the things -- this quote certainly underscores the cost of doing business in the web2.0 world compared to 5-10 years ago. Here's a full article that discusses investment , success and competitive trends related to technology startups: The cost of failure falling...Success remains elusive.