Summary: Review your connections and think about how you can help them. Choose five people and offer to assist with their tasks. Building strong connections can lead to new opportunities and success.
Go through all your connections and think hard about how you could help each person. Find the best 5 candidates and offer to take some things off their backlog. The connection is half the battle, so wise to start from there. (View Highlight)
Note: Advice from Daniel Vassallo on how to build connections and create opportunities online. Very similar to permissionless apprentice except that Daniel doesn’t say to do the work first.
This is how I started 6 years ago. I did some bug fixes for a startup founder I had worked with before. I wrote some technical docs for another guy I knew. I did phone screens for an ex-colleague who was hiring at his company. Did $40K first year with only 20-30hrs/mo. (View Highlight)
Note: It’s incredibly that Daniel did £40k/year part time, on the side, in first year of trading online.