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Ha·Nov 10

I recently met a startup with a weird & wacky idea. My initial gut reaction was "there's no way that this would work", but I finally got to conviction to want to write the check. I put together this framework on Contrarian Investing 101, hoping it might help founders & VCs on how to evaluate an idea when there might be initial doubt & skepticism. Give it a read and let me know your thoughts!

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