Network Strategies For Startups and Entrepreneurs

Society Concepts of Network

When it comes to networking we are normally told to network with those who are in our shared values and leave the masses who hold important roles to our success ignored and neglected. Mostly those who share the same values. 

Discovery of a new Concepts to network:

Somehow, I found this statement confusing as I journey on the path of entrepreneurship this statement turns out differently. I try to dig deeper into “importance of networks” and the opportunities it has. Realizing your network does not determine who you are, it explains the expansion, influence and connections your dream has. Discipline is what determines who a person is and how they react to things ahead and before them.

Social Opportunity within A Network:

In a world where your dream is unknown, your network is the strength, opportunity and expansion of your dreams and passions.

Your network serves as the beginning and expansion of your dream. It is also the most powerful opportunity and beneficiary if you understand how to use it in the direction you are driving. Your network does not determine who you are; your discipline determines who you are. Your network is the source of strategy for your dreams. Your network does not change you, but it makes you understand and see things from a different perspective of life if you are disciplined and dedicated to a deeper sense of conviction.

The things that you set as boundaries are the convictions that your principles and values are established and cannot be compromised. If you compromise on any of them, your network will lose trust, respect, and value in you and your work.

Within the social market, where loneliness is one of the pandemics of the 21st century, there are many opportunities within that market, but discipline and understanding of what you want play a role. Networking helps you reach your goals faster and connects you with the market you want to serve.

I know you are told to build a network with people who are of your kind, but what if I say build your network on quantity it would be strange because you are used to what society says. The larger the network, the better chance you have to sort out those who are assets and liability.

Those who are assets are those people who share the same values and those who are liabilities are those people your dreams are designed or passion to serve.

Understanding your network wisely helps you cut things that are costly to achieve and reach where you want to be at no cost or less. No matter how dangerous the network is, know what you want and how you can play on the network to achieve a win-win goal where everyone achieves, not just you.

The most beneficial part of networking is knowing how to divide your networks into two groups: assets and liabilities. Both networks provide valuable access and guidance for certain decisions you make for your future and dreams. Networks built on assets and liabilities should be built on trust, rather than transaction.

What are those benefit in your network?

As a startup, entrepreneur or small business these are the 4 opportunities you should gain from each network you establish or join.

Your network should be broken into these four groups;

• A dream team
• Investors
• Partners
• Customers

In Every network, you should be able to sort out these four groups, giving you the opportunity to reduce the weight of starting and operating your dreams or passion.

Asset and liabilities within your network:

Let’s get a quick understanding of assets and liabilities within your network

Asset networks navigate uncertainty, while liability networks follow instructions to make decisions for their future. Understanding how to lead between asset and liability networks gives you better insights into the future and what to expect from each network. With this knowledge, you will confidently speak the language that influences both networks in the direction that makes your dreams work.

However, your network should not be built on quality alone, as this is a traditional rule. The larger the network, the larger the market and extension for your dreams, making your dream well-known in the world that you were previously unknown to.

From the beginning of every dream to be known as great, you are unknown to the world. For it is the network you established that defines how far you have reached. Sometimes, how you inspire, negotiate with, and contribute to people builds a network for you that will be recommended ahead of needs.

Until you get known to the world, you must make your dream more extensive and clearer in the eyes of each network you establish no matter who is in that network, whether at work, school, or anyplace you can meet people.

The best decision to make in life when your dream is unknown to the world is knowing places that make it easy to establish a network that makes it easy to show your best part of who you are and what passion you bring to that network. You must not leave a place without anyone knowing what you are good at and how passionate you can redefine their future.

Within each network you establish, some should serve as those who need you as their solutions, and others as partners. With a well-defined strategy for your network, you will know who needs you as their solutions and who should be partners.

To understand who are those that are designed to be those who need you as their solutions and partners within your network, you must set rules—meaning a standard or draft of what to accept and not to accept. Acceptability and unacceptability are ways to break rules and follow your own rules, because the drive to innovation comes when someone breaks the rules to force their own rules.

Your network determines how far or how fast you reach your goals. The advantage given to grow faster and win in the reach of your readiness is to build a network based on quantity and later pick the quality. This means building a large circle with a diverse set of people with different perspectives on life. There, you can assess to see who are those that share the same values and who are those that should depend on you for solutions.

Those who are a liability within the reach of your network are those who need your support and presence. Use that as the means for the products you invent for the people you serve and the solutions you bring to the world around you.

Asset is not the money you make from a job or seeking high-paid jobs. Asset is the knowledge, talents, and skills you possess to live out of jobs and high-paid jobs within the reach of the future. Until you recognize your assets, you have defined a new draft for the future. This draft becomes the people you build with and associate with. And the confidence you established yourself as and to become when the future locates your strengths.

Whatever the capability of your asset is based on, you should spend much time mastering it and being well-defined within it, so that you do not see anyone within the reach of your drive. You also see your future attached to your asset. This is the blueprint to win and lead the network of your dreams. It is also a way to build your dreams according to each network's strength and reduce the amount of pressure on you to be creative and valuable on your own time.

Article written by Mandela Philip Thomas

An International strategic Business Consultant, 

Entrepreneur and Inspiring Public Speaker