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When creating that initial relationship with VCs and angels and introducing them to your idea/startup before raising how do you approach cold outreach if you don’t have a personal intro / recommendation

Building @withfam Prev. Co-founder @ Talisman ✴︎ Member @ FWB, Refraction, The Park, UFO ✷

Outside of break out growth, hard to get mosts VCs to pay attention to you without a warm intro. One the benefits to working at a high-growth startup is the references you get from other people involved in the company.

cc @alok @nick who are both pretty good at finding undiscovered founders

To answer more clearly: I'm anomalous in that I have never personally raised from anyone I didn't already have a pre-existing relationship with.

Co-founder @bountycaster (bountycaster.xyz). Co-producer @ethereumfilm. Previously co-founder of Scalar Capital and product at Coinbase

I’ve actually been really surprised at how responsive people have been to cold DMs and willing to jump on a call to give feedback / thoughts

If you have a decent following on Twitter (sorry blasphemy until Warpcast adds this feature), I used to read all of my cold outreach Twitter DMs where it surfaces who follows them among accounts I follow. Met many founders that were fundraising this way