Success and failures is measured more clearly with the benefit of time. Have a peak at how the innovative economy has performed in recent history on BetaBoston:
[Boston] startups [collected] $7.4 billion in funding this year — a 30 percent jump from 2014…[and] higher than any year since 2000, when dot-com mania pushed investment in Massachusetts startups above $10 billion, according to the financial data provider PitchBook. A single company in Cambridge, Moderna Therapeutics, announced a $450 million funding roundback in January — the biggest private funding infusion for a biotech startup ever.