Manipulating The Business of Getting Strangers to Meet One Another
Being the not busy person that he is, the author has recently been increasingly using his time off after work and over weekends to show up at various meet-up events across Taipei, trying his best to make acquaintances with the rather small foreigner community here in the city as well as the well-heeled and keen, international-minded, and often enthusiastic English-learning local Taiwanese crowd. In this process, the author has come across an interesting segment of a small-business owners. They have no office, little revenue, but plenty of friends they can leverage on to gain revenues through scale.