They are the small segment of the population that will adopt a cool product early on and infect everyone else with the bug. - Keith Ferrazzi

by giving your time and expertise and sharing them freely, the pie gets bigger for everyone.

among the failed startups, 80 percent never managed to innovate beyond their original vision for their companies. Among the successful startups, however, two-thirds had found success by discarding whatever founding vision had gotten them funded, because trial and error had led them to a new vision of success.

If 80 percent of success is, as Woody Allen once said, just showing up, then 80 percent of building and maintaining relationships is just staying in touch.