Your deal flow isn't yours if it lives inside someone else's Rolodex.

Between 2020 and 2024, hundreds of community and regional banks got absorbed into larger institutions. The VP who knew every founder in town got reassigned. The informal referrals stopped. And a lot of angels who built their sourcing around those relationships found themselves with a contact list and no pipeline.

That's not bad luck. That's a structural problem.

In this episode, we look at what actually replaced those channels, and why the angels still seeing quality deal flow aren't the ones with the most impressive networks. They're the ones who rebuilt how they source entirely.

We cover:

• Why relationship-dependent sourcing is a borrowed pipeline, not a real one
• How to get into a founder's consideration set before the pitch deck exists
• The geographic arbitrage most angels in the US and Western Europe are still ignoring
• How to build an evaluation system that catches what founder affinity makes you miss

There's also a concrete exercise at the end: audit your last ten deals and count how many came from the same one or two sources. If the answer is uncomfortable, that's where to start.

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