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How to Get Meetings with Investors and Raise Money by Aaron Harris

Startup School by Y Combinator

CHAPTER

Don't Spam Investors

Walk into the meeting with a positive understanding of what they're doing and context to understand the entire conversation. This is a cold email that is likely to get a response, whether or not you know the person you're emaling because it's so specific. Don't spam investors. It doesn't work. Investors are not usually sitting around waiting for an email from someone they've never met introducing them to an investment opportunity. What they are waiting for is the company that no one else knows that is secretly amazing,. That nobody else has talked to yet, that has no connections. If you find it and is actually as good as it seems, that's the one that makes you all of the money

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