Why VCs don’t invest in early-stage consumer companies

[cwan]

http://billburnham.blogs.com/burnhamsbeat/2009/12/the-great-abdication-consumer-internet-venture-capital-and-angels.html

[jbyers]

Dupe of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1000404

URLs didn't match because of Google Analytics tracking cruft. Curious to know how bad the dupe-URL problem is on HN.

[rlpb]

Define "consumer internet startup". Is that any startup that isn't focused on B2B, or what? Isn't that most of them?

[slvrspoon]

this is why Y combinator is important, and the offspring it has spawned in the last 3 years.