Wow, this matches perfectly with what I see here in Brazil too! "Fake investors", "Fake Serial entrepreneurs" and "Startup enthusiasts", I've seen all of them!

Wow, this matches perfectly with what I see here in Brazil too! "Fake investors", "Fake Serial entrepreneurs" and "Startup enthusiasts", I've seen all of them!! Great post. I would like to add that, most of times, these people are not deliberately malicious. They really believe they "role on the ecosystem". I think this may be a consequence of reading too much Silicon Valley stories, specifically the vanity ones, usually on Techcrunch and Medium these days. They read someone from SV with a history and grasps only the "glamorous superficiality" of what they have to say. So people emulate roles without actually knowing the real actions and real values one should have. A "Fake investors" is emulating what he thinks how an angel investor acts on YC demo day; a "Fake serial entrepreneur" emulates how he thinks Steve Blank became successfull (as startups is a quantity game, found enough startups and you be able to say "My total score is: two large craters, one dot.com bubble home run and several base hits." one day); a "Startup enthusiast" emulates what he thinks someone, anyone, who frequent cafes and events in SV does and says.