Legendary VC Bill Draper (founder of Sutter Hill Ventures and Draper Richards, among other investment firms) also foresees a bright future for the fledgling startup, saying that he thinks Identified will become the "standard of professional networking for the Facebook generation and beyond" just like Facebook did for social networking.
From elevator speeches to the proverbial, "So what do you do?" and "What can you do for me," networking events, I've drawn a line in the sand and am not afraid to say it, "Networking sucks!" That is until Friday, July 11th, the day everything changed.
Run by 3beards, who describe themselves as the UK and Europe's "most iconic startup community events organisers", presumably because that's what unchecked facial hair does for you, the startup networking event — or piss up, in British parlance — happens every Friday night somewhere in or close to London's "Silicon Roundabout" tech cluster.
"I'd love to see the program come around again, because I know what it does for guys who play, and I know what it does for guys as far as networking," Staley, a field sales representative with a firm in Kansas City, told the Guardian.
Do make time for networking.
The forms of "being with" and "doing for" on social networking sites (or even in interactive gaming) seem trivial because the stakes are very low.
Focus on what you can do for others, because networking is not initially about what others can do for you.
Use the same profile picture for your Twitter account as you do for the other social networking sites you use.
If you're an introvert or an extrovert like me who doesn't care for networking events for all of the reasons I've mentioned, then find the other introvert or introverts in the room.
Here he is, practically pounding a table about what his networking can do for the world, when he should just feel lucky to be alive.
