{"id":6364,"date":"2015-11-05T16:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=6364"},"modified":"2015-11-07T21:13:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-08T01:13:49","slug":"brady-most-of-the-time-he-opens-doors-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/brady-most-of-the-time-he-opens-doors-for-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Brady. Most of the time he opens doors for me…"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang<\/p>\n

Networking at places you are not invited to is intimidating…<\/p>\n

Brady is my shih tzu and he is a connector. Having a connector is like a catalyst that lowers the activation energy. When you are starting up a business, or building a start-up or just starting up your FICO score, it is great and awesome if you have a connector that builds connections, introduces you to mentors and facilitates ‘networking’ (I see starting a business as crashing an industry because they entrenched incumbents see you as a threat. Ditto if you’re starting up your FICO score)<\/p>\n

Here, Brady has opened the door to enter the field…<\/p>\n

\n\"\"<\/a> As a connector, Brady can open a lot of doors!\n

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Networking at parties you crash has three areas that I focus on. They’re very similar! Here are the three areas where I network uninvited:
\n– Money. Money has an industry with unwritten rules. I network at credit industry conferences because your interest rate determines how much you pay to use OPM (Other People’s Money)<\/p>\n

– I network uninvited at VC conferences. Entrepreneurs use money that belongs to a venture capitalist. I network at these parties because I like how street smart VCs are. I like how many people VCs know. I do not like VC money. Its like a mortgage. Ideally, you own your mansion in Atherton, outright.<\/p>\n

– I like to network uninvited at Business Schools. The b-school is chock full of knowledge about accounting, finance and organizational behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Larry Chiang Networking at places you are not invited to is intimidating… Brady is my shih tzu and he is a connector. Having a connector is like a catalyst that lowers the activation energy. When you are starting up a business, or building a start-up or just starting up your FICO score, it is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking-at-parties-you-crash"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}