Tweet With so many conferences, how to choose the ones you will attend? You can classify conferences in “must-attend” and “nice-to-attend”. The “must-attend” ones will be obvious to identify depending on the topic and conference type (see previous post). How to deal with the “nice-to-attend” conferences? Again, there are no hard rules. What works for [...]
Tweet Participating at conferences is effort-intensive and time-consuming. Thus you need to “pick your battles”. There are many types of conference and business gathering. I like to classify them by size and duration. You should attend the type of conference that will best help you achieve your particular goals. Small conferences (up to 150 attendees) [...]
Tweet Attending conferences is a great way to expand your network. However, just “going to conferences” is not enough! Attending conferences in a new industry or new country can be mentally exhausting as it takes you out of your comfort zone. You can easily find 20 excuses not to attend such a conference (a report [...]
Tweet “Hello, my name is Jordi, I water companies to help them blossom, I work as investments director at XGr Ltd.” This would be my self-introduction when attending investment or entrepreneurial events. A self-introduction is a “memorable” single sentence that you can say to people when meeting for the first time. It needs to be [...]
