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We make 40% of our investments through cold outreach. Warm connects do help because you have references. But it is like would you hire a decent candidate with good references or a great candidate who reached out cold. But the ability to build trust on the founder is paramount. Of course, a cold outreach has more hurdles, but what in life does not have hurdles.

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