It's hard to compress so much advice into one blog post and let is sound reasonable if context is missing. However, I agree with all points except this one: >

It's hard to compress so much advice into one blog post and let is sound reasonable if context is missing. However, I agree with all points except this one: > In general, avoid the kind of stuff that might be in a movie about running a startup—meeting with lawyers and accountants, going to lots of conferences, grabbing coffee with people, sitting in lots of meetings In general a successful CEO is 30% of his time networking and 70% working on hiring and leading the team and working on the product the product. Looking out for peers and spending time with them is important because... - It changes your mindset, from being an employee to a real founder, this takes quite some time and your old employed friends are not the right peers anymore - You learn a lot, small information exchanged on a conference can help you with fund raising; usually every meeting with a new person has some value, in particular at the beginning of your journey - Especially lawyers—the good ones—are extremely well connected and sometimes help you with the first introductions There are some CEOs who are real networking animals and do 100% networking and 0% working on their product, that's for sure not the way and I guess Sam referred to them.