It's probably selection bias. It's easy to find people you want to find on the internet, but look around you in the real world. If you aren't in silicon valley, it's very difficult to find entrepreneurs and it's even harder to find them outside the internet.
I'm in Beijing, I'm in the food industry, and I'm surrounded by entrepreneurs who almost never go online. I turned down the posh jobs out of college and my partner quit McKinsey to found our company. A friend just bought a million dollar factory for his t-shirt and pants company. Entrepreneurship is not just online and the notion that entrepreneurship is in decline feels very wrong to me. I'd like to see data.
You are biased towards software startups. I live in the US and I've lived in India. Look around you as you drive home. There are entrepreneurs everywhere. Small businesses drive around 70% of the economy.
