🐺 Aug 5 - Making connections, Brant style

Together with

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Over the weekend, I listened to the latest episode of Fresh Brewed Tech: Stories about Brant Cooper, with Neal and guest Ashokoyote. They were talking about the legacy Brant Cooper left on our startup community.

He was a connector, innovator, ranter, and, in fact, was the reason these two coyotes on the mic connected. He helped create the sense of a smaller world.

There is such power in making connections.

I’m all for making connections for everyone, Brant style. It helps the community tremendously. But how do you know someone has good intentions? Do you have a system for this?

This was the message I sent over to my friend Ashokoyote to get this super coyote connector's opinion. I’ve often struggled with how well to get to know someone before opening up the network.

Here’s what he said: 

You don’t have to try to be perfect, which will just paralyze you and prevent way more good connections than bad ones. Again, like startups, some failures are inevitable and part of the game. You don’t have to vet every single person. The community weeds out bad actors, and they have no power without community support.

What a wonderful response, the answer lies with the community. We collectively have each other's backs and this allows us to continue to make new connections and bring even more people together.

I’m doubling down on community.

Here are the happenings you should know about:

🐺 Monday August 5

🐺 Wednesday August 7

🐺 Thursday August 8

🐺 Friday August 9

Together with DNAMIC

Sufyan, founder of DNAMIC, and I had a pretty great conversation about outsourcing development (his specialty) at Neal’s Founders Hike.

I was telling him about a friend who was building a startup in San Diego. His engineering team was in Vietnam. When he went to bed, they got to work.

Some nights went great, other times he woke up and his team had gone in the entirely wrong direction. He had lost a full day's worth of work and now his team was asleep.

He started staying up all night to accommodate the team, but ultimately moved to Vietnam. Not quite sure leaving San Diego was the solution.

Sufyan is no stranger to this type of problem and has used examples like this to build DNAMIC.

I asked him what other traps are out there when outsourcing development work.

This is not a comprehensive list, but it’s clear that there’s a lot to consider when outsourcing a project.

Thanks for having the packs back Sufyan. Give him a ping if you have questions, or join him on the next hike.

Here’s what we can get excited about next week:

🐺 Tuesday August 13

🐺 Wednesday August 14

🐺 Thursday August 15

🐺 Friday August 16

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- Jonah 🐺
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