Sourcing Best Practices: How to Build Your Own Deal Sourcing Engine

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by a searcher from University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
in New York, NY, USA

1yr ago

Sourcing Best Practices: How to Build Your Own Deal Sourcing Engine

Hello searchers! I run sourcing operations for $250M+ PE firm and put together a course on how to build a deal sourcing engine from the ground up.

What's included in the course

- Finding leads: how to find SaaS, healthcare, or prof services companies using LinkedIn, AI web-scrapers, and public data sets.

- Enrich your data: how to (inexpensively) enrich your data to curate hyper-targeted outbound lists and aggregate CEO contact data

- Screening & prioritization: how to set up a screening process to identify high priority targets efficiently

- Run outbound cadences: how to build email & cold call sequences that get CEOs on the phone

- Manage pipeline: organize deals to stay on top of active and long term deals

What else you get

- Top sourcing tools: my personal list of the best sourcing tools including CRMs, email automation, web-scrapers, AI tools, and more!

- Cold email tips: how to structure founder-focused cold emails to maximize reply rates

You can sign up for early access here: redacted

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reply by a professional 1yr ago
from Duke University in New York, NY, USA

Def recommend checking out getcohesiveai.com - built it initially as we work with 50+ clients doing proprietary sourcing. Google Maps scraper + Ai-based enrichment in bulk

reply by a professional 1yr ago
in Boston, MA, USA

Hi ^redacted‌, would love to chat here. Our platform is already beating Inven, Grata, etc.