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Personal relationships are always the key to good business. You can buy networking; you can't buy friendships.

There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.

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.

I've met so many who have opened doors for me and remained in my life both personally and professionally. After a while, networking doesn't feel like 'networking.' It's both serendipitous and unpredictable, and something that just naturally becomes part of your work life and your personal life.

My Golden Rule of Networking is simple: Don't keep score.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn't want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

It's hard being on a new network, a smaller network.

By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.

Any time you build a network, you have to help users find their friends.