There is a simple solution. It also give middle class an actual shot at an exit even without hitting a unicorn. This is for the groups that went to state schools not the Ivys.
Take a group of 4-6 CS grads and maybe a business major. The parents of these kids form a company and bootstrap the kids by having them work from home and just covering legal costs and cloud costs with a focus on keeping costs low. They go find a problem and start finding customers. No salaries are needed as each parent takes care of their own kids. This gets rid of the problem of just giving 22 year olds $10M and hoping they figure it out. The middle class doesn't have that kind of money, they have to be smarter but it is possible. Someone who has the knowledge could make a template that others could just use even without the know how. I wish my parents would have done something like this. I didn't have the chance to mess with a start-up after graduation. I worked 40 hours/week while in college. Graduation was about getting money asap to start digging out. This is the thing that the 1% have over others, a huge backstop and support self in case they fail.
If they can't do that, then it's not an initial funding problem (which the parent post tries to solve) but that their business just should not get started.
Take a group of 4-6 CS grads and maybe a business major. The parents of these kids form a company and bootstrap the kids by having them work from home and just covering legal costs and cloud costs with a focus on keeping costs low. They go find a problem and start finding customers. No salaries are needed as each parent takes care of their own kids. This gets rid of the problem of just giving 22 year olds $10M and hoping they figure it out. The middle class doesn't have that kind of money, they have to be smarter but it is possible. Someone who has the knowledge could make a template that others could just use even without the know how. I wish my parents would have done something like this. I didn't have the chance to mess with a start-up after graduation. I worked 40 hours/week while in college. Graduation was about getting money asap to start digging out. This is the thing that the 1% have over others, a huge backstop and support self in case they fail.