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?
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.
haha, sounds like the chicken and egg dilemma!
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.