Great post and I agree with everything, but: As always, carefully vet someone else's experience against your own reality: >If you’re not raising money you w

Great post and I agree with everything, but: As always, carefully vet someone else's experience against your own reality: >If you’re not raising money you will accomplish very >little for your business by meeting with VCs and >networking. Unless you are an enterprise software start-up, in which case your first customers may come via introductions by coffee-drinking VCs who may realize that you're solving a real problem for their portfolio companies. [1] >Building your product and finding product market fit >is going to yield much higher dividends for your >company than networking. Unless you're networking with your target audience, in which case going out and talking to real people with real problems actually directly contributes to you finding the product market fit faster. [1] Good VCs have great reputations for a reason.