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suking on Sept 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to handle a VC who flies First

It's probably intimidating to ask someone like Jim Breyer or Mike Moritz or John Doerr. I imagine that would be a conversation I'd be nervous to have :-).

brandonb on Sept 5, 2011 [–]

Ultimately, it's their money. If you were a VC, wouldn't you be re-assured to see the company being frugal?

danshapiro on Sept 5, 2011 | [–]

In my experience, investors in high-growth startups that raise a lot of money are not particularly concerned about frugality.

Joel Spolsky has an old article that may help explain the mentality.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000056.html

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