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Entrepreneurs are invited to the 365th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, August 31, 2017, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register...
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Western Digital has today announced that it purchased Upthere for an undisclosed amount. Upthere had previously raised $77 million from an impressive list of investors, with KPCB and Western Digital Ventures leading the round. Upthere wants you to think of its service as the canonical location where your data lives. It’s available for OS X/MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Read More
Fraud detection is a huge problem for retailers and the banking industry. But as companies fortify their defenses against fraudsters, the criminal element finds new weaknesses to exploit. The latest tactic has been phone spoofing, and fraud at the call center itself. Helping to ward off the latest wave of fake accounts is Next Caller, a Y Combinator-backed startup based in New York. Read More
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have welcomed their second daughter into the world, and her name is August. Before you ask, it’s unclear if she was named August because she was born in August. (But I highly doubt it.) In usual Zuck fashion, the Facebook CEO and founder posted the announcement to Facebook along with a letter from him and his wife to the new baby girl. Here’s… Read More
Although Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has yet to officially accept the chief executive officer position at Uber, Expedia Chairman Barry Diller believes “it is his intention to accept,” according to an SEC filing. Just yesterday, it came out that Uber offered the CEO job to Khosrowshahi. In an email to Expedia employees, Diller wrote: As you probably know by now, Dara Khosrowshahi… Read More
Leela Kids is a very straightforward app that nonetheless might prevent some parents from going insane. It curates podcasts by subject matter for age ranges from three to 15 years old and packages them in a kid-friendly interface. Leela Kids gives caretakers peace of mind that whatever their charges are listening to is age-appropriate and reasonably edifying. In fact, it recently hit the top… Read More
August 28, 2017
Adam Grant has a superb essay in the New York Times this weekend titled Networking is Overrated.
I enjoy Adamâs writing immensely (his book Give and Take is a huge inspiration for my upcoming book #GiveFirst). Early in the essay, he has a strong lead in.
âItâs true that networking can help you accomplish great things. But this obscures the opposite truth: Accomplishing great things helps you develop a network.â
He finishes the essay with a great punch line.
âIf you make great connections, they might advance your career. If you do great work, those connections will be easier to make. Let your insights and your outputs â not your business cards â do the talking.â
Now, great connections can result in special things. Iâve always believed in being open to random connections and for years I would do a random day once or twice a month, where Iâd meet with anyone for 15 minutes. Some magnificent things have come out of this, including Techstars and my relationship with NCWIT. As Iâve gotten older, and more visible, itâs been harder to maintain any rhythm around random day, but it shifted to something else thatâs congruent with what Adam is saying.
While I still try to respond to all of my emails, I now have very little available face time or phone time. So I allocate whatever is free to people who are doing interesting things. Instead of having random days, I have âreact and spend time with people doing interesting thingsâ days.
Remember, Iâm an introvert. In Adamâs sequel to his NYT article titled To Build a Great Network, You Donât Have to be a Great Networker (enjoyably / ironically on LinkedIn), he says:
âItâs possible to develop a network by becoming the kind of person who never eats alone, who wins friends and influences people. But introverts rejoice: thereâs another way. You can become the kind of person who invests time in doing excellent work and sharing your knowledge with others.â
Get to work. Seriously â just go do some stuff. Youâll be amazed at what happens as a result.
Also published on Medium.
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