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Podcast: Investor Connect Podcast
Episode: Startup Funding Espresso – Availability Cascade
Description: Availability Cascade Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. The availability cascade is a cognitive bias defined by as a self-reinforcing cycle that explains the development of certain kinds of collective beliefs. Investors who repeat a belief among themselves will reinforce that belief even if it’s not true. One investor will state his recollection as a fact to a group of investors. Another investor repeats the statement as a fact. As this continues around the group the initial recollected memory becomes a fact that every investor bel...