# kaal:claim:3949098-016

**Claim.** Without access to a network of core expertise, early stage investments in the digital asset industry are rarely successful.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** asserted

**Holds when.**

- early stage digital asset investing
- an industry that evolved in silos of information and expertise

**Source quote.**

> Without access to a network of core expertise, early-stage investments in the digital asset industry are rarely successful

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, *Reputation as Capital – How DAOs Upgrade Finance* (2021), II. Basic Concept, 3. Risk Optimization, page 10

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Reputation as Capital – How DAOs Upgrade Finance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3949098

**Verify.** sha256 of source PDF `04297905564a6092b2db7640561f58fd374d3114c79527357bad09d11b909819` at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wulfkaal/Academic-Papers/main/papers/pdf/Kaal%20-%202021%20-%20Reputation%20as%20Capital%20%E2%80%93%20How%20DAOs%20Upgrade%20Finance.pdf

**Failure mode.** Expertise Network Exclusion  (family: inequality-and-access-divide)

**Topics.** risk-and-incentives

**Keywords.** network-access, early-stage-investing, expertise, digital-assets, risk-factors

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