Hmm... perhaps trade shows and networking events are a different beast. I've been to quite a few conferences and networking events lately, but the main reason h

Hmm... perhaps trade shows and networking events are a different beast. I've been to quite a few conferences and networking events lately, but the main reason has been to meet interesting people and build connections with other entrepreneurs (or non-entrepreneurs, for that matter), rather than to get something speciifc out. The few people I encountered who clearly had a specific agenda were not the most interesting, I found. So far my best approach to meeting someone at a networking event is to 1) find out what they do, 2) figure out if there's any way I could help them. I like this approach in particular because it's scalable - if everyone does this, we all win. And, in fact, it seems most people do this at start-up networking events (most that I met, anyway)