You can still hustle from the edges inward, you just have to be a bit more creative about it. I probably can't hit up Marc directly but I bet I could find peop

You can still hustle from the edges inward, you just have to be a bit more creative about it. I probably can't hit up Marc directly but I bet I could find people who know him well enough to provide an intro but who aren't so well known themselves that they would ignore a cold call/email from me. Any firm you want to pitch has associates, secretaries, IT people, lawyers, and somebody who waters the plants, all of whom are there every day interacting with everybody else. It's a hustle-filter, not foolproof, not perfect, but efficient enough.