"Sure the relationship between investors and investee has come a long way. A decade ago, one wouldn’t have imagined entrepreneurs slagging off investors even in

"Sure the relationship between investors and investee has come a long way. A decade ago, one wouldn’t have imagined entrepreneurs slagging off investors even in private." Actually that happened during the dot-com crash; one engineer described his company's investors as "Vulture Capitalists". There are many reasons I don't seek VC. There are good VCs but in my estimation they are rare. Better not to get investment at all than to get it from a bad VC.