Looking Glass Capital

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If you understand alpha, you'll recognise that the opportunities with the greatest potential will rarely arrive as neatly packaged referrals. Instead, they'll be hiding in some overlooked corner of the market. Or, occasionally, they'll find their way into your inbox. Cold inbound might be the richest vein of opportunity for venture capitalists, but it is often poorly understood, neglected or delegated to juniors. It's also increasingly difficult to manage in a world where AI allows founders to scale personalised outbound. In the cases where it is managed well, cold inbound has been found to provide stronger exits that require less capital. A similar rate of success, with much less competitive funding dynamics. "The successful cold deal flow companies outperformed in terms of overall exit size. [...] Cold deal flow companies saw, on average, a 16.2% higher ROI and required almost 18% less capital." Success and ROI of cold deal flow companies versus warm deal flow companies (2020) The typical alternative, relying on networked referrals, is connected with a relationship-based drag on performance, as well as compounding many of the typical biases that degrade decision quality. "Higher levels of past coinvestment lead to lower exit performance, a result that continues to hold after controlling for endogeneity.” Getting Tired of Your Friends: The Dynamics of Venture Capital Relationships (2019) Building a process around screening cold inbound is a valuable exercise for VCs, as it requires learning to focus on the real signal, filtering out the bias-inducing and time-consuming noise. Research suggests that there are six main questions that can help you to understand whether it's worth moving on to a meeting. Organised efficiently, this can allow you to eliminte the slop and effectively evaluate opportunities in just a couple of minutes.

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