Relationships Are All Around

Roger McNamee, a renown investor and new blogger, has an incredible post on the importance of investing in relationships. He associates the relationship building process to that of the j-curve of venture investing.

That’s [J-Curve] when you invest more than you reap in the early stages, but in the long run you get paid huge dividends. You won’t be able to predict when a relationship will be valuable to you—or even if a particular relationship will be valuable to you—but if you invest in enough relationships, the payoff will be huge.

There's more in the post, but the gist is that people make business and the investment in them reaps huge rewards over time.