One thing I found out as I get older, that I no longer like large gatherings of people, as I imagine most networking events would be. I much prefer one-on-one i

One thing I found out as I get older, that I no longer like large gatherings of people, as I imagine most networking events would be. I much prefer one-on-one interactions. I found out that lunches are quite good for this. It is in middle of the day, most people do go lunch somewhere, and sending a message along the lines "Hey, could I join you for a lunch sometime this week?" usually doesn't require too much effort from the other party :-) On the other hand, I mostly use this to meet former colleagues and classmates, so it is much lower stakes than the I-need-to-network-to-get-clients. Getting the way to message the people is probably the hard part, if I ever needed to meet people I don't really know yet, I would defer to a networking guide by Stephanie Hurlburt of Binomial [1] and just send out cold e-mails. [1] https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/networking#making-direct-asks https://stripe.com/atlas/guides/networking#making-direct-ask...