Networking tips, product updates, and stories from founders who remember the people they meet.
A fundraise is dozens of parallel conversations you cannot afford to confuse. Here is a system to track investor conversations that survives a real raise.
September 11, 2026 · 6 min read
A light system to remember people you meet at conferences: capture context in the moment, use a business card scanner where it helps, and follow up before the window closes.
5 min read
You have a call in ten minutes with someone you barely remember. A 60-second pre-call briefing fixes that. Here is the routine and a template to run it.
You already know someone who can help. Here's how to answer "who in my network can help with this?" and turn a hunch into a warm introduction.
September 11, 2026 · 5 min
When a spreadsheet is genuinely enough for tracking relationships, when it quietly costs you more than a subscription, and how to switch without abandoning the new tool too.
September 11, 2026 · 6 min
A great meeting prep brief is short, specific, and readable in under a minute. Here are the five elements that make one work, and why each earns its place.
Most founders treat networking as a side quest. The ones who win treat their network as infrastructure: captured, searchable, and ready the day they need it.
August 1, 2026 · 5 min
Waiting too long, forgetting the context, and giving up after one email. The five networking follow-up mistakes that quietly kill good connections, and how to fix each.
July 22, 2026 · 5 min
The best time to capture a meeting is the thirty seconds after it ends. Here is how to take voice notes after meetings so the details stick and you don't have to.
July 15, 2026 · 4 min
You already know someone who can help. AI networking is about surfacing that person on demand, using the notes and relationships you already have.
July 8, 2026 · 4 min
The value of a conference is rarely the conference. It is the follow-up weeks later, when you reconnect with the one detail everyone else forgot.
June 28, 2026 · 5 min
What separates a cold network from a warm one, who to message first, and how to reconnect with old contacts without the awkward apology.
June 12, 2026 · 5 min