[pg]

Even if a VC offered an email address to send business plans to, I'd try to get an intro instead.

(Also, the instructions on the form say it is for "other inquiries." You're supposed to send business plans to one of the email addresses on the right. So if you used the form that may be why you didn't hear back.)

[Hitchhiker]

Let me be a little less polite than PG

VC public e-mail addresses == /dev/null .. they exist purely to appease the raging masses of entrepreneurs hanging outside their walls, reading Venturebeat ( fill in another 10 top " blogs " of your choice ) more than mails from their mum.

Cold calling any of them will not work. Heck even intros from the highest level are not treated that nicely if you're a first time guy.

Best place to be in, acquire unfair advantages like a yC tag and learn everything you can from insiders. Make a product that even in its most seed form shows a pathway to an entire industry. Get traction.

"If you're in a fair fight, you didn't plan it properly." - Nick Lappos, Chief R&D Pilot, Sikorsky Aircraft

[samstave]

>VC public e-mail addresses == /dev/null .. they exist purely to appease the raging masses of entrepreneurs hanging outside their walls, reading Venturebeat ( fill in another 10 top " blogs " of your choice ) more than mails from their mum.

Doesn't this sound like an opportunity then?

Why have a blackhole at all? Why be so un-innovative? Sure, it will cost you money - but if you claim that this is the reason for NOT doing it - you admit that innovation is not your goal, but profit only, thus it will go against so many supposed charters of VCs out there...

Let's be honest here. What is the bottom line?

Either VCs only want a "sure thing" or they actually want to foster innovation and progress, and receive profit as a result.

If you are in the former, not the latter, then - sorry - but I have no respect for you. Regardless of your success.

Paradigm shift, we need it.

[Hitchhiker]

Sam, I noticed your later comment. My apologies if I peeved you off.

Perhaps, you are correct, I do not have the expertise to have a POV.

Just a minor correction, I do not have an MBA and or the admin with the description you gave. That's rather demeaning to the women who may be reading this list.

Just another coder in a team of four trying to figure things out. You've correctly identified err.. my virtues[1].. guilty as charged.

Take it easy mate.

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Wall#Virtues_of_a_program...

[samstave]

:) I had a little wine. This makes me punchy on text... Sorry about that. Nothing personal.

I just want the startup world to get the return on value that they produce.

I am still jaded in this area...

Thanks for the reply.

[Hitchhiker]

>>Doesn't this sound like an opportunity then?

Think incubators like yC and others are already onto this.

>>Paradigm shift, we need it.

Perhaps, maybe there is someone like that with the time at hand.

A singular paradigm shift as defined by Kuhn et.al., strictly speaking, would perhaps take half or quarter of a lifetime of effort.

Most entrepreneurs would want to invest that energy into building their companies, not involved with too much political muck.

VCs / institutional folks are functionally services. Its like a 7 star hotel, there are some people who can afford to stay there. Some can even afford a presidential suite. They don't give a hoot about those that cannot pay the tab.. mostly because they are fielding all the demand they can get .. and have no time for anyone's feelings.

You have a better chance of getting empathy from groups like yC than VC.

" Idolatry is the name of the error which attributes a sacred character to the collectivity; and it is the commonest of crimes, at all times, at all places. "[1]

" In particular, the modern factory reaches perhaps almost the limits of horror. Everybody in it is constantly harassed and kept on the edge by the interference of extraneous wills while the soul is left in cold and desolate misery. What a man needs is silence and warmth; what he is given is an icy pandemonium "[1]

[1] - http://www.amazon.com/Simone-Weil-Anthology/dp/0802137296

[samstave]

>>>>Doesn't this sound like an opportunity then? >>Think incubators like yC and others are already onto this.

Did this not get directly refuted by PG in his earlier comment in this thread?

I am sorry - but your post rings so full of hubris and egotism that I cant take you seriously.

If I am just obtuse, then I apologize. Please consider the following;

>Most entrepreneurs would want to invest that energy into building their companies, not involved with too much political muck.

Where are you showing VCs/even YC to reduce political muck? It appears to be rampant. I see that the initial investment (YC seed, through others) has increased - but that does not prove the value to dollar ratio has necessarily increased at the same rate.

Political muck indeed.

>VCs / institutional folks are functionally services. Its like a 7 star hotel, there are some people who can afford to stay there. Some can even afford a presidential suite. They don't give a hoot about those that cannot pay the tab.. mostly because they are fielding all the demand they can get .. and have no time for anyone's feelings.

This is fucking BS; you state that Receiving VC is equic with CHOOSING to stay at a 7 star joint.

Look - people do NOT choose to stay at a 7 star place (no such thing) unless they already have the funds - in your case, you are saying that one only counts if they have already been included in the circle to, not only, receive the 7-star funds, but are also in a position to spend said funds on same resort.

Please correct me if I am wrong.

You sound like an MBA/Finance, uh, geek who entered into VC at too young of an age and the only person you have managed directly is the hot admin with big tits whom, had they not ordered your coffee correctly, you would have berated them for their poor upbringing.

Sorry - but, I do not think you are really of the proper domain expertise to be answering such threads.

[wavephorm]

Yes as I said I emailed them. I sent everything, my business plan, my site, everything. Now maybe they didn't like my application. Maybe it was no good. But from my perspective, the only interaction I have with this VC is being stonewalled by them after spending time applying and dropping (what I believe) to be a great oppurtunity right in their laps.

[webwright]

VCs have a fund (basically a big finite amount of cash). They can make X investments with that cash. They also have a very finite # of hours they can invest to help their companies. The best ones (like these guys) are literally buried in highly qualified deal flow. That means entrepreneurs coming in with great references, working in great markets, often with traction. They have no shortage of deal flow.

On the other side of the marketplace, there are literally zillions of entrepreneurs who want their money.

All that said, it'd be nice if they had an auto-responder on the site saying, "We try to look over all of these, but can't offer a reply unless something REALLY catches our eye," to set expectations accordingly.