There are lot of ways people get non-economic payback - learning, networking, and relationships. These drive most angels more than the money.
My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.
From a social networking point of view, Pakistan is not very far away.
There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
What the Internet has done is made it easier to stay in touch with people, and social networking has helped me career-wise by helping me keep in touch with my fans.
Personally, I can't see the appeal in trekking down to D.C. for a networking extravaganza, even if it is built around a special moment in American history. While I find the election of Barack Obama inspirational, I don't have a desire to memorialize it with overly effusive celebration.
I had so much fun in early days learning about networking, security, scalability and other geeky stuff.
Create a website that expresses something about who you are that won't fit into the template available to you on a social networking site.
Networking is all about connecting with people. But then again, isn't that what life is about? The more time you can find to get out of the office and build true friendships, the farther your startup will go. Entrepreneurs need to remember to spend as much time working on their business as they do in their business.
AOL invented social networking.
