This is an acute and common problem - in Israel most of the startup companies just try to get enough costumers and hype to attract the industrie's big players attention and to sell themselves afterwards and make their exit.
Israel is called" the startup nation" but the sad truth is that most of those startups just sell themselves to big foreign companies.
There are a free companies that insisted on being independent, and it was worth it - they grew to be wealthy, successful companies - one example is checkpoint - started as a startup and became a 17 billion dollars worth company.

Developers should be aware that there are good people in initiatives that help to new startups - it's called "startup accelerators" - they offen provide funding, officers and funding. One such initiative is the renowned Ycombinator.

So yes - if you have that brilliant idea and you are going to go for it all in - you have good people in that will help you. You have the ADSactly society of course, the accelerators, and your own power of will!
Good luck!