As someone who has gone through Y Combinator early on, I think networking was actually a bit under emphasized. A lot of networking can be useless if you don't f

As someone who has gone through Y Combinator early on, I think networking was actually a bit under emphasized. A lot of networking can be useless if you don't follow up in depth; but our company has gained immeasurably by identifying people who have built and scaled businesses (technically and otherwise) and then got them to sit down for an hour or two and teach us about an area that we're weak on.