This document discusses the importance of forging relationships in business through sharing meals and regular interactions like coffee meetings. It recommends starting habits you want to see by reading books on networking and articles about focusing on one-on-one interactions over mass broadcasting. Hard work over many years is emphasized as key to success, along with making decisions and applying energy to your goals.

1. A Contribution
@mstafford
@9others

2. “FORGING AND BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS IS REALLY
WHAT BUSINESS IS ALL ABOUT. AND THERE’S NO
BETTER WAY TO TAKE A RELATIONSHIP TO THE NEXT
LEVEL THAN A GOOD MEAL IN THE RIGHT SETTING”

3. Good books about Networking

6. 9others around the world

11. A magic wand

12. A business?

13. A story about Nick

14. A story about Rish

15. A story about Ryan

16. Start a habit you want to see
There’s no magic, but also no rules
- Dinner
- Regular coffees / drinks
- Blog

17. Read this though
“Do things that don’t scale”
by Paul Graham @paulg
http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
“it would be so much less work if you could get
users merely by broadcasting your existence,
rather than recruiting them one at a time”

18. And this
“Startup advice, briefly”
by Sam Altman @sama
http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice-briefly
“Work really hard. Everyone wants a secret to
success other than this; if it exists, I haven’t found it
yet.
Keep doing this for 10 years.”

19. Hard work triumphs over
cleverness or talent
Make decisions - most people
put them off
Have energy. Most importantly,
apply energy to whatever you
want to do

20. @mstafford
matthew@9others.com