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You have to ask yourself; what's the purpose of this network? Is it to have a group of like-minded engineers so that if you lose your job you can get first hand referrals for a new job? Are you looking to establish yourself as a consultant? Are you looking to meet higher level executives in hopes of becoming them one day? Whatever the case, if you email them with an shallow request of "looks like you're doing cool th…
You have to ask yourself; what's the purpose of this network? Is it to have a group of like-minded engineers so that if you lose your job you can get first hand referrals for a new job? Are you looking to establish yourself as a consultant? Are you looking to meet higher level executives in hopes of becoming them one day? Whatever the case, if you email them with an shallow request of "looks like you're doing cool th…
What do you mean by "Be strategic" here?
And tactically: figure out how you can make meeting you of value to the other person, what you want to accomplish (result) and do in that meeting. Basically: do your homework.
one of my all-time favorite resource in this regard is this book: "Work The Pond". it totally alligns with my own philosophy + values.
Read this from The Success Manual: Networking To Build Your Career http://www.thesuccessmanual.in/chapter/networking-to-build-y...
Go to the dev meetup after parties and bring coke. That's how I landed my research gig
You can either approach this small-scale (you want to actually know the people in your network) or large-scale (you want millions of readers/twitter followers, etc). For small-scale: * Industry talks and conferences -- it's very common for tech companies to give talks or even conferences. An information security / pentesting consultant company held an event where some of their employees presented research that they w…