Startup Funding Espresso Present Bias
Present Bias Hello, this is Hall T. Martin with the Startup Funding Espresso -- your daily shot of startup funding and investing. Present bias is a cognitive bias defined by Wikipedia as the tendency of people to give stronger weight to payoffs that are closer to the present time when considering trade-offs between two future moments Early exits weigh stronger on investors than further-out exits even if substantially larger. Under present bias, investors forgo longer-term gains for immediate gratification. To overcome present bias, consider yourself in the future compared to today. Ask what your future self wants rather than your present-day self. If holding the investment longer will make your future self happier, then that can outweigh what your present self wants.\xa0 Another way to overcome present bias is to set goals and criteria for buying and selling and use those for determining when to buy and sell.\xa0 Finally, there\u2019s the time value of money which measures how much future returns are worth based on the time to return.\xa0\xa0 By using these calculations you can see the quantitative difference between the two investment choices.\xa0 \xa0 Thank you for joining us for the Startup Funding Espresso where we help startups and investors connect for funding. Let\u2019s go startup something today. _______________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: \xa0 Check out our other podcasts here: \xa0 For Investors check out: \xa0 For Startups check out: \xa0 For eGuides check out: \xa0 For upcoming Events, check out \xa0\xa0 For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group\xa0\xa0\xa0 Please , share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of .