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Podcast: Investor Connect Podcast
Episode: Startup Funding Espresso -- Singularity Effect
Description: Singularity Effect Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. The singularity effect is defined by Wikipedia as the tendency to behave more compassionately to a single identifiable individual than to any group of nameless ones. People in general feel compelled to help individuals. In a disaster scenario such as an earthquake, donors will feel numb to the large number of people impacted by it. But they will find the individual stories compelling. Investors feel a stronger connection to one or two people in a startup rather than t...