/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>1549356
This.

>>1549391
>What in the fuck is this even supposed to mean though? Meet rich people and get them to invest in your ventures?
Yes, but in more ways than one. It's about leveraging your connections to get what you want, and deliver stuff in return.

If you want to go into banking, for example, you use your network to a) help you get the job, since Wall Street is a boys network, and b) help you secure clients, preferably whales.

Other business ventures, they might help finance you, or even do something as simple as help you advertise/gain access to an event where you can meet other people.

Example: I used my connections to help secure a job at a think tank, and I then I doubled down on that by helping get my boss/think tank president a speaking slot at one of those prestigious public-private partnership summits, on par with international/world leaders. How? A fraternity brother I got along well with at a networking event happens to be a programming senior adviser at the very same summit. A lengthy WhatsApp conversation and a few emails later, and boom.

Now the boss is basically subsidizing my book research for months, down to costs involved in printing numerous white papers. And if I finish, he can use his own contacts (in particular, a well-known NYT best-selling academic who could write a foreward to my book) to boost it.

It's all about favors, son. Trade em, owe them, grant them.