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Networking (Business)
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- Find people who became successful without going to a fancy school and ask them for help.
Conferences
Questions
- How important is networking? How much time should I be spending on it?
- Tentative answer: Network to find good cofounders. Beyond that, don't spend any time on it.
- The Airbnb guys didn't seem to spend any time networking. But on the other hand, they did find each other while at school.
- Zuck didn't seem to spend any time networking, but he did meet his cofounders through school.
- On the other hand:
- IIRC the Hotmail guy spent a bunch of time networking and got a good mentor who helped him.
- Tentative answer: Network to find good cofounders. Beyond that, don't spend any time on it.