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Podcast: Investor Connect Podcast
Episode: Startup Funding Espresso – Confirmation Bias
Description: Confirmation Bias Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Confirmation bias is a cognitive bias defined by as the tendency to search for, interpret, focus on and remember information in a way that confirms one's preconceptions. Investors bring their recent investment experiences to fund new startups. If the investor recently lost their investment in a deal in a certain sector, then the investor will most likely look unfavorably at other deals in that sector. On the other hand, if the investor found success in investing in a...