On being an expert…
May 7, 2009 at 5:51 pm nbtventures 1 comment
You know what’s nice about claiming to be an expert on topic [X]? Everyone and their uncle goes out of their way to tell you about other people and companies in the [X] space. And lo and behold, pretty soon, you know more about [X] than everyone else. There must be a name for the phenomenon.
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dlweinreb | June 12, 2009 at 11:07 am
I’ve been attending meetings of the Mass Tech Leadership Council’s Robotics Cluster, because I am hoping to find good investments for Common Angels, and because robotics is cool. It turns out that I am the only investor who ever comes to these meetings (almost). In fact one goal of the group is to get more VC’s prepared to invest in robotics. Dan Kara, who comes to the group and was running the RoboBusiness conference, asked me to give a talk on investing in robotics; so I did. Then, about a month later, I was invited to be on a panel to talk on the same topic. Presto: instant “Expert!”. It’s not that I’m really such a hot-shot expert; I’m just the only person who seems to know anything in particular about this from the Boston angel/VC community. Go figure.