I attended a business seminar where a facilitator a renowned professor, and Entrepreneur shared a story on how he missed out on investing in a small fintech start two years ago which as at today is worth $500 million. He said the team had approached him to make an a investment in the start but because he did not understand how the were going to make money since he didn't invest the $100k he wanted to write them. Today, he would have been $7.5million richer had he invested.
They say do not invest in what you do not understand which was largely the principle the speaker adhered to but what if despite not immediately understanding the business model and its profit making model yet your business instinct pushing you to invest. What should you do? Listen to the former or follow your instincts?
It feels like people go through many different stages and evolutions of their business knowledge. When I first got into investing many years ago, it felt very hard to focus on specific things I should be looking at when evaluating a business and it was so easy to get deluged by the vast amounts of information on display. However you learn over time what to look at and develop your own strategy, it helps in speeding up your decision making process. It's definitely better to avoid situations that are time sensitive and you feel pressured into an investment that you're not confident in.
This happens on almost every field of knowledge, at the beginning I had a lot of problems to tell when a project was a scam, however as time went by and I learned more about this market my skills in that regard increased as well, which is what allows me to see that almost all of the coins being created every single day are scams, something which discouraged me and that eventually led me to stop being interested in the altcoin market.