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and just map the market and be dogged about meeting everyone and be comfortable getting lots of doors slammed in your face. So finding warm connections for introductions, cold emails never worked for me. Meeting people at conferences, meetups, referr
...networking, they're they're all gonna be negative words because everyone thinks of it as, ew, I don't wanna do that. But it's basically just building relationships, being curious about people, being someone people wanna spend time with. Because to Ro
I think that's so important is to hear from people who may think differently than you, and and people that aren't afraid to push back on your opinions. And so really investing in your network, investing in your community, I think, is important. Somet
more materially aligned with our business and began to fund all of our transactions, even though they were still case by case, slowly and kind of organically built a team. So when you are starting out, you said you're young, you're getting going, you
what typically happens is often found to start, like I said earlier, by assuming that people will just turn up. And when they don't, they have to go hunting for them. And so the first thing you do is you build out a potential if you're doing sales, a
So I think many people think about prospecting that I'm going to go raise a fund, and now I'm gonna build these relationships so that they commit to my fund now. That's not the right way. Building relationships is a longer process that comes over bra
we see this as the number one way that we get to move faster. Our relationship with experts is supremely helpful. My business partner, Maddie, has one of the strongest corporate venture capital Rolodexes of anybody I've ever met. She spent nearly a d
As you're building up those relationships over time, how did you balance the role of being to raise capital? Because that's gonna take a couple years, and you don't really start with those relationships. Yeah. I mean, there's always that internal fri
...out and networking with people in the industry. It's looking for, you know, interesting opportunities, whether it's internships or fellowships, and it's, you know, sort of paying attention to emerging trends and technologies in the industry so that w
The land war that we fight in going around the globe and building new relationships, especially in a world where capital doesn't necessarily flow free these days, it's not always easy. What I have learned is the most important way to build your brand
okay. So you do take meetings very early even if they're not ready for capital, and then you nurture from there. Yeah. In fact, one of our latest commitments, the round wasn't closed yet, I've nurtured for Aurea. And what goes into the nurturing asid
You bring in new groups and it particularly in my space, they're coming at it from the mindset of this is how we did it. But now they're part of a 260,000,000,000 organization. It's a very different situation. When you work at a bigger organization,
At our events, our scheduler opened two weeks ago for the LP side just yesterday for the GP side. We have 1,500 meetings scheduled already among those participants, and these people will spend the next six weeks scheduling another fifteen, sixteen th
Absolutely. And, let's try to double click, on the trust building aspect. What goes into it? You know? Is it is it like a more personalized section in in the reporting that you're sending out that's, you know, directed at a particular LP about how th
And so you have to find ways to connect with other founders if you wanna build something special in the world, to get advice, to get strength, to get wisdom, to make friends. It's not enough to, look online because online, there's full of BS, surface
Is there a secret that you wanna pass on to people about how to build that level, the set of advisors? What I would say to people that want to build that kind of cohort of of domain experts, it's gotta be a symbiotic relationship. You know, you there
actively participating in those communities. I generally find a lot of people when they start doing outbound marketing stuff is they go and they just spam their community suddenly with loads of really, really, blatant sales messages. Whereas what you
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