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Podcast: Investor Connect Podcast
Episode: Startup Funding Espresso -- Gambler's fallacy
Description: Gambler's fallacy Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. The gambler’s fallacy is a cognitive bias defined by Wikipedia as the tendency to think that future probabilities are altered by past events when in reality they are unchanged. Investors bet on startups that follow what other recent successful startups have done even though the potential of the startup is no better than before. For example, after a startup proves successful in a sector, investors rush to that sector to fund similar startups. While the market may be r...