Mark Osborne discusses why fintech founders hit a wall with networking. They exhaust their own contacts, then ask others for introductions to customers and influencers. The speaker gets many of these requests and shares how they handle them.
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And the first one is something that's so top of mind to me, Mark, because it happens often. And this is where a fintech founder, your investors, your board members, you may have burned through your Rolodex and now you're wanting to take the next step and start burning through other people's Rolodexes. So you reach out to people that have connections at the— with the ICPs that you want to target, or you think they have a number of followers and you think that you need them to sell and to refer business to you. And I bet, like you and many of the, the listeners out there, I get several of these outreaches over the course of each week or each month. And I'm always, uh, I, I'm, I'm always trying to be very empathetic with the situation that, that folks are in, help where I can. If it's a product or a company