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Podcast: Investor Connect Podcast
Episode: Startup Funding Espresso -- Semmelweis Reflex
Description: Semmelweis Reflex Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Semmelweis reflex is a cognitive bias defined by Wikipedia as the tendency to reject new evidence that contradicts a paradigm. Some investors reject startups if it goes against conventional wisdom. In the startup world, there are always new technologies, markets, and business models to support them.  It takes some effort to learn about these new areas and so can be easily dismissed as not important. To overcome the Semmelweis reflex, investors should bring some level of curiosity to the...