I welcome efforts to help small business owners, but we shouldn't pretend that small business in general drives the economy. The huge jobs and productivity growth that we associate with startups comes from a very small % of disruptive companies, mostly in high tech. (I wrote a bit more about this here: http://bostinno.com/2012/02/17/bailouts-for-startups-tough-l...)
Small businesses drive employ almost half of all employees (and more than half during boom cycles).
The technology sector has an overinflated sense of the value it provides to the economy in terms of jobs created or productivity growth. Note that the article you cite does not refer to technology startups, it refers simply to new businesses under the catchall "startups."
