7 Tips To Grow Trust In Your Startup Community

7 Tips To Grow Trust In Your Startup Community

Over the past few years, the concept of social capital as applied to startup communities and ecosystems has emerged and become integral to the strategies and tactics formed to accelerate a region. Feld and Hathaway write in The Startup Community Way that “social...
The First Startup Tool To Master

The First Startup Tool To Master

As you grow as a startup founder there will be many tools to acquire. Start with networking. I often look at the journey to startup success as similar to learning to walk as an infant. You typically don’t go from pulling yourself up off the floor to master...

Setting Up the Networking Meeting

I wrote last week with some tips around networking.  For me, it has gone from a burden to one of my most important tasks.  With the 2,200+ one-on-one meetings under my belt, I have been in every kind of networking session you can imagine. First things first – get a...

Networking – I Hate Networking. You?

Just the sound of the word makes me feel yucky.  If the word “networking” feels forced and insincere you are not alone.  Yet, what if I told you that I have networked with well over 2,000 RTPeeps in the last 4 years? Its true but I have to profess I have never...