VCs Put the Brakes on Early-Stage Startups

[Sam_Odio]

http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/10/vcs-put-the-bre.html

[bootload]

"... 'Our new investments in a down public market are tilted toward early stage ventures,' says Steve Jurvetson, a partner at VC firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson ..."

Right advice. Is DFJ a top tier VC?

[seiji → bootload]

Yes.

http://ycombinator.com/topvcs.html

[pg]

I don't see this happening yet, at least to YC alumni. The rate at which they're closing series A rounds seems unchanged.

[crabapple]

investors were unwilling to fund entrepreneurial activity for nearly twenty years of risk-aversion following the depression. vcs think this will be just a four-year hiccup. in ten years most of them will be gone, along with everyone else who thinks that the beginning of a secular bear market is the right time to take risk.