Adrie Reinders “Connecting Entrepreneurs”

My good friend and colleague, Adrie Reinders, is the CEO and Co-Founder of the E.Factor, a vibrant online community and virtual marketplace designed for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Adrie’s recent blog post  is all about the current financial crisis and networking.

Duke University, Financial Crisis and Networking

Networking is used and recognized for its values in many aspects of business these days. With all the lay-offs, certainly recently in the in the financial industry, people will unfortunately come to the conclusion that they did not spend time to network until it was too late.

As we said in our book “the N Factor”, you should start networking as early as possible in life, when it is still easy to connect. Especially people working for major corporations, will often believe that they have a fabulous network. However - it is very easy to be introduced to, or connect to others when you have the name of a big corporation behind you. It becomes a totally different story if you are no longer part of that corporate and a mere individual. Those contacts you had when part of the organization often don’t stand for much when you are on your own. And needless to say, it is when you are on your own that you need them all the more..

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