The second reason crowdfunding wont be a fit for these tech startups is that the tech startups generally do not have revenue or much, if any, consumer traction at the point of early VC funding.
While some in the environmental movement have been wont to dismiss individual actions as too small to do any good, Terry is proof that the opposite is true.
Instead, Obama chose to act as politicians are wont to do, his interventions poured cold water on the economic recovery for blunting the curative that was the Bush recession, and the result was a competitive campaign for re-election when he should have won by a landslide.