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How a 10-Second Email Sealed a Billion-Dollar Deal 2nd part
VC is no different.
The biggest returns come from finding undervalued opportunities before the market does.
And those gems?
They are rarely found in familiar Webs.
That is why top VCs break out of their circles. They run to cloud conferences, mouth to pedantic researchers, and — yes — they take cool emails.
the experimentation that varied everything
for age, this was a good amp theory
But extremely, Alex Dang and Ilya Strebulaev set it to the Check.
In their hold-the-stake mindset, they led associates in nursing experiments:
they conveyed hundreds of cool emails pitching a fictitious startup
given cool outreach report they potentially mean to Nobelium Answer
but inside years, the information aghast them
1 away of cardinal emails got a bold Answer
And not good civil replies — two-thirds of those VCs asked for a meeting
They, too, surveyed investors; however, numerous of your deals get from cool outreach.
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