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Venture capitalists, who have been uncharacteristically pessimistic for the past year, are seeing signs of hope, according to the latest quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index.
“I wouldn’t say we are on a new upward trend yet, but I think we’ve at least broken the downward spiral,” said Mark V. Cannice, executive director of the University of San Francisco Entrepreneurship Program and publisher of the survey. “There is some degree of stability in the financial markets and that allows a little bit of optimism that we will get to the other side of this thing, so it’s more a matter of ‘when’ rather than ‘if.’”
https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/venture-capitalists-confidence-creeps-back/