[arjvik]

I once had a VC tell me they would never fund travel startups, because the only good founder of a travel company is someone who travels regularly, and that would imply they are too distracted to be working on their own company.

Hope this doesn't match what you've experienced?

[borski]

VCs will say a lot of things when they are not investing. 99% of what they say is nonsense when not investing, because the real factor is “will it make lots of money?” and/or “can it scale to hundreds of millions of people?”

Almost anything else doesn’t matter. Travel a lot? I guarantee you that if your company is running well and printing cash, VCs will not give a second thought to how much you travel.

But if you’re not making money or sales… that’s a different story.

[timqin]

haha, sounds like the chicken and egg dilemma!

[fakedang]

I once saw a YC video stating that they hate discovery type startups, calling them tarpit ideas. Yet here we are...

VCs are shiftier turncoats than Benedict Arnold and Judas.