VCs tend to have an easier time funding already-validated ideas: having an established competitor, or seeing other VCs fund similar companies. It's lazy, but th

VCs tend to have an easier time funding already-validated ideas: having an established competitor, or seeing other VCs fund similar companies. It's lazy, but they can afford to be lazy - if they miss their chance on your revolutionary tech and you somehow succeed, they'll fund the next startup that copies you. The other day I saw a commenter who worked at a wind power startup that failed to get subsequent funding because Alphabet shutdown Makani, and their take away was the idea no longer seemed viable.