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Aren't VCs supposed to anticipate trends?

Posted on October 15, 2008

Breaking news: Confidence in Silicon Valley's venture capital community is rapidly eroding. A study released Wednesday by the University of San Francisco finds that VC confidence in the third quarter fell to its lowest level since the university began surveying investors in 2004. And with good reason, as anyone with a 401K knows.Silly question: Aren't the folks charged with identifying the technologies of tomorrow supposed to anticipate trends--in the valuations of startups, say--rather than respond to them? Fine, the worst of the financial crisis (so far) didn't roll in until after the third ...

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