Now let me see if I got this right...OP is a venture capitalist who is complaining that he regularly sees pitches where the business is not focusing enough on t

Now let me see if I got this right...OP is a venture capitalist who is complaining that he regularly sees pitches where the business is not focusing enough on their market and customers. Did it ever occur to OP that this is just selection bias? How can he comment on all of the pitches he doesn't see? Start-ups focused on revenue have many more options before they'll pitch him. Perhaps they're self-funded. Or now that they have a presence in the marketplace, they have more investor opportunities: customers, vendors, angels, strategic partners, even banks. Customer focused start-ups are out there. OP has just positioned himself to see less of them.