Network, You do not Know who you are Going to Meet - 52/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

Networking is a very useful way to meet new people.I try to go to networking events as often as I can, but it is a little difficult at times because I'm rather busy and do not wish to travel every day. There's traffic and I don't want to mess around with traffic jams. Once every few days is fine.But, when you begin to network you may meet new and interesting people and you never know what may happen.In March 2015, I met a potential business partner. We talked and disused, but our cooperation never amounted to anything. I offered us to start some businesses together, but they went nowhere.In December 2015 I met a good business partner of mine. We meet up once a week to discuss new ideas and research, we are also planning on starting some companies in the future. Once we have sorted our own things out.The more people you meet, the more likely you are to do business with them. Each person has their own strengths and weaknesses and you may be able to work with them.I met a businessman from another country in mid January 2017, and he was talking about how he has some land abroad. And he wants to build a rock crushing plant there, because the land has a lot of rocks that can be turned into cement. He was going to invest around 10% of his income in buying equipment, but I asked him why doesn't he use crowd funding. He liked the idea and asked to meet up and talk about working together, which sounded exciting. Long story short, he offered to meet up and never actually turned him. Either he has changed focus and lost interest in this idea, or he has figured out a way to do crowd funding on his own or some other reason that I don't know about.So, the moral of the story is that not every is as genuine as you are. We all have our own problems, ideas and as humans we are fickle. So be cautious of people wasting your time...Question of the day: what are you doing now to network?There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.