This idea will never work, but on top of that his "rules for entry" are totally silly. Just take a glancing look at this data and you can see that his criteria should be inverted http://www.census.gov/econ/smallbus.html
There are ~6M firms in the USA but only ~90K with revenues of 100M+ so his pool is very small to start with. Firms with 100+ employees count for 1.8 percent of employment and capture 65% of total payroll and something like 2/3 of total revenues. I think ANY company that is pulling in 100M in revenue has probably got things figured out already. The vast majority of employers in this country are small firms so why not try to help small guys turn into bigger guys.
So I think if anything, there should be more investment in firms with less than 100 employees, less than 100m in revenue and less than 10 years old.
There are ~6M firms in the USA but only ~90K with revenues of 100M+ so his pool is very small to start with. Firms with 100+ employees count for 1.8 percent of employment and capture 65% of total payroll and something like 2/3 of total revenues. I think ANY company that is pulling in 100M in revenue has probably got things figured out already. The vast majority of employers in this country are small firms so why not try to help small guys turn into bigger guys.
So I think if anything, there should be more investment in firms with less than 100 employees, less than 100m in revenue and less than 10 years old.