Making connections with other tech entrepreneurs can benefit by providing you with new business perspectives and a wide range of contacts which can help your business grow.

Making connections online or in person is a very salient investment in the business world. It is a very critical step for both of your own personal growth and the growth of your business.

Why Should You Connect with Other Tech Entrepreneurs?

Multi Leverage Marketing (MLM) poses a great opportunity for growth as an entrepreneur. It has been used to benefit those at the top of the pyramid.

This famous business strategy is being utilized by huge and even medium scale businesses to promote and make lifetime consumers of their products. It is a strategic way to invite more people to be the company’s consumers and distributor at the same time.

Pairing bonuses are given to the member of the organization if they have invited other people to be part of their growing organization’s pyramid structure.

As promising as it may seem, networking types of business don’t stay in the business through real connections. You can also gain exposure, gather some business insights and explore free mentoring opportunities.

Take advantage of the situation and the contacts you’ve made. Build rapport with them at your meet up event and help your business grow. Don’t hesitate to initiate a friendly conversation with your fellow tech entrepreneurs.

Making connections with other tech entrepreneurs can benefit by providing you with new business perspectives and a wide range of contacts which can help your business grow. Making connections online or in person is a very salient investment in the business world. It is a very critical step for both of your own personal growth and the growth of your business.

Where You Should Be Looking For Connections?

Among other social networks which you can use to make real connections, Twitter gives you full access to real-time action. Your Twitter feed provides current news and information across every industry.

It can also help introduce you to persons who may be in your field. Reach out to these like-minded individuals and forge connections by adding value. The most important question to answer when networking is, “What do they want from this?”. 

Remember to use your personal connections. Ask them if they know anyone who might give you insight into your business development and growth.

They might give you contacts of possible customers or even recommend a business adviser. This can offer valuable insights into how you can grow your business.

Organize or Attend Local Meet-Ups

Organize one local event where you can gather your friends (and their friends). As the event organizer, you can capitalize on your position as host. Where can you find new friends to populate your event?

Look for like-minded individuals and make connections through entrepreneurial organizations. Examples of these include the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, Young Entrepreneur Council, FoundersCard, Social Enterprise Alliance, and the United States Association Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

These organizations provide you a great avenue to have a great network for your business through real connections. You can also gain exposure, gather some business insights and explore free mentoring opportunities.

Take advantage of the situation and the contacts you’ve made. Build rapport with them at your meet up event and help your business grow. Don’t hesitate to initiate a friendly conversation with your fellow tech entrepreneurs. 

More for the Tech Entrepreneur 

It’s a breath of fresh air to be away from your regular workplace sometimes and have a little yet meaningful conversation. A healthy exchange of ideas with a fellow tech entrepreneur might give you all the answers you’re looking for.

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2018 is officially dead.

With each passing year, new trends in tech pass as well. Today’s tech entrepreneur has to keep up with these things in order to keep morale high at the office or lack thereof.

It can be hard to predict what’s coming next. What will an employee require as the traditional office environment deteriorates along with most of the norms of doing business? It’s impossible to tell but for a promising tech entrepreneur, it should be an exciting experiment.

Let’s try to look ahead and predict some of the tech entrepreneur workplace trends in 2019.

Cubicles Are Over

Something that your average tech entrepreneur might notice in 2019 is that work can happen anywhere. With the increasing emphasis on work-life balance and the desire within people to work remotely, we will see companies attempt to make the office a more welcoming environment.

The cubicle environment of old is dead, and the office will become a place where people convene to iron out kinks. This means big, open spaces housing long tables and a barrier-free environment where people from all departments can connect for a more cohesive atmosphere.

Think the newsroom in “All the President’s Men” but without all the landline noise and cigarette smoke.

Sobering Up

Offering better food and drink options will come to the forefront of tech office culture. Entrepreneurs will see the value of a happy, healthy employee, and that includes in-house workout facilities and programs, as well as healthy snacks. 

Bye, bye beer Friday’s. Sadly, pizza and beer meetings might be a thing of the past, but they will go out in favor of salad bowls and smoothies. Not so bad. 

In the future, expect to see things like afternoon yoga or meditation retreats and workout classes to build morale in the connected world, maybe even work or life-coaching seminars to prevent stagnancy in the office. “Oh hey, that’s Jane from spin class. I didn’t know she was on the dev team.” 

Disconnecting: Work/Life Balance

Now that it’s 2019 and there isn’t really such thing as “disconnecting” anymore. Tech entrepreneurs may attempt to encourage employees to leave their phones at the office to facilitate that work-life balance discussed earlier.

More and more people are never actually leaving their work at work when they go home at night. Their work emails are in their pocket and receive the same notification ping that their mom’s text message does. “Well, I’ve got my phone out, might as well answer this email.”

Through the Looking Glass

Employees are becoming more and more outspoken with resources like Indeed and Glassdoor, where employees can rate their experience at a company for the benefit of those looking for employment.

Tech entrepreneurs will have to be increasingly mindful of their reputation on these websites. If an employee wants a raise and you don’t oblige, you may be looking at a slanderous review online, which could hurt your chances of getting quality employees in the future.

Gig-Economy

Again, with the trend in work-life balance, we might also see the rise of “gig-economy“. Gen-Z workers are coming into the workforce expecting a progressive outlook, and they will be more likely to hire themselves out for specific tasks rather than tie themselves down to a company. 

This “gig-economy” has mutual benefits for the worker and the business. For the employee, they get to work on tasks that they are good at, get paid for the contract, and move on. For the employer, you pay for a completed task and don’t have to cover a worker with benefits.

Have Fun With It, Tech Entrepreneur

It’s time to let go of all the boring office norms of the past and bask in the creative and good-natured future. 

In this case, change shouldn’t be a frightening prospect, but an exciting one. And being at the forefront of office culture change is what will make you a good tech entrepreneur. Visit our blog for more entries on how to become a tech entrepreneur and take your business into the future.