Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... W

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes... Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave! Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria! No one knows what is going to happen. Not Mike Moritz, not John Doer, not Guy Kawasaki. It doesn't surprise me that Sequoia is telling its startups to be frugal, but they should be doing that anyway. Startups that run in anything but Frugal Mode are begging for failure. Until society entirely breaks down -- government has dissolved, people running wild in the streets, tent cities springing up by the thousands, people fighting over who gets the last mudcakes -- business will continue. Unemployment could reach as high as 10 percent, but business needs will still exist, as will the need for innovation that saves money and increases efficiency. Outright panic caused by petulant bankers is not only annoying, it's downright stupid.