Cut Business Expenses

(I’m live-blogging from Startup School, a daylong program from startup incubator YCombinator held at Berkeley today. You can watch it here live or update as we go….) Greg McAdoo , a partner at Sequoia Capital , said the firm has been making more investments in the last 12 months than in the preceding two years. The firm, one of the Silicon Valley’s most storied houses with homeruns like Google, was a whole lot less pessimistic than last October, when it released an ominous deck of slide

I’m here at UC Berkeley for Y Combinator’s Startup School 2009, where the startup incubator has invited hundreds of entrepreneurs from around the country to listen to some of Silicon Valley’s most accomplished founders and investors share their advice on building a new company. Sequoia Capital Partner Greg McAdoo just took the stage to talk about the current economic conditions, and how startups can actually thrive during them. Below are my paraphrased notes on what he said. You can also