On any given Wednesday morning at 9am Central time, I invite you to show up at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, “the Foundation of Entrepreneurship,” in Kansas City, Missouri. Ask the receptionist to direct you to 1 Million Cups (“1MM Cups”). No reservations necessary. Last year, my colleagues in Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation […]
Holiday Networking Tips
This morning, I received a wonderful email from Bob Lovely, a loyal member of our CLC community that I have not met in person, but with whom I feel a kindred spirit given his obvious interest in forging meaningful connections. Bob, through his organization, QED Wine Purveyors, hosts frequent wine tasting/networking events in the Kansas […]
Tracker
Today’s post focuses on a rather simplistic, but very critical component of networking: How to keep track of your contacts. This comes up a lot. Invariably, I am asked about it during the Q&A portion of talks that I give on networking and, just today, I received an email from a contact asking how I […]