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Not to veer too far off-topic, but these "speculative meetings" are often (but not always) well worth the schedule disruption, even if it ripples out across sev
by cookiecaper 14y ago
Not to veer too far off-topic, but these "speculative meetings" are often (but not always) well worth the schedule disruption, even if it ripples out across several extra "productive" hours. Perhaps for Paul Graham, who has all the VCs in the world scrambling to fund his picks, it's not so important, but for the little people like you and I, the value of a good network is immense.
Business is primarily a social thing. It always has been, and is no different today. This is why inferior products can make tons of money.
- mindcrime 14y agoThere's some interesting discussion around this phenomena on this Quora question: http://www.quora.com/Manners-and-Etiquette/How-do-you-politely-turn-down-someone-who-wants-to-grab-coffee-sometime http://www.quora.com/Manners-and-Etiquette/How-do-you-polite... and this follow-up: http://www.quora.com/Manners-and-Etiquette/How-do-you-dodge-being-politely-turned-down-when-you-want-to-grab-coffee-sometime-with-someone-when-you-have-meaningful-things-to-talk-about http://www.quora.com/Manners-and-Etiquette/How-do-you-dodge-... I consider both threads to be worthwhile reads.
- 001sky 14y agoBusiness is primarily a social thing == Very true.
- jmathai 14y agoSeconded. While inefficient, they are often more valuable than spending that time heads down coding a feature that's not going to bring in any extra revenue or users.