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Yep, fully agree, that's exactely what I say in point #4 of the blog post :)

• Mz 16y ago
  Well, I didn't get that out of point 4. Here is the exact quote: Making your startup succeed requires you to have a lot of faith and dreams about your project, and a weekly lunch is probably a good environment for having this kind of team “bonding” around a common vision / dream. It's not merely a good environment for bonding, sharing a meal actually causes some bonding all by itself, whether you discuss business or not. Humans are at their most vulnerable when eating and food sustains life itself. There are some very powerful psychological and emotional forces at work when you sit down and break bread with another person. It isn't merely "nice atmosphere". I used to feed the single soldiers who came to my apartment in Germany to play role playing games with my husband. Every last one of them came to say "goodbye" to me when they got their orders to go back home to the US. And some of these strapping young soldiers cried as they hugged me goodbye, though their relationship had not really been to me, it had been to my husband. But I was the one who played hostess and cooked them Christmas dinner and put my kitchen at their disposal every weekend, not him. Peace.