 It's my pleasure to welcome you to this Tech Connect. You know entrepreneurs are idea farmers. Our job is to harvest ideas, but in order to harvest ideas you have to plant seeds of ideas, water and feed them and hope that some of them will grow. I think all ideas, all successful businesses, are ultimately about solving problems that nobody has solved or solving them in a differentiated way. Getting your idea at the right time is really important, because if it's the wrong time, all you can do is wait. Like right now, I think if I were to try to do my robot company again, I think it would be a massive success. In fact, I might do it. In fact, I might join you. So the whole concept of brewstrapping is finding ways to do more with less at every turn. You come as an entrepreneur with a lot of passion and an idea and you think this idea is perfect and it's going to work. And what bootstrapping forces you to do, because you're really relying on few resources, is to really find out is there a market for this? Is it practical? Will it work? One of our students who actually did bootstrap building a rocket. So he started as a freshman and he came in his first day and said he needed five million dollars to build his... Well, it started with 600 million and now it's down to five million. But over the four years that he was doing his undergraduate degree, he has three patents in his name. He built an 18-foot rocket for under $30,000. I can't think of a single thing where you couldn't bootstrap in some way. Space, the last frontier of bootstrapping. That's right. Today's session, raising capital for your venture, using any means that will allow you to advance your venture. Understanding yourself first and then targeting specific investors that are going to have a higher affinity for your company is critically important. There's this quotation, no good plan survives the battlefield, and I completely agree with that. When you start to work with investors in particular and they start seeing you break down the problem, they're encouraged and they actually want to continue to work with you because they're like, okay, this person is actually trying to figure out the answer. You are going to be rejected, but it's that gumption and that single mindedness that I think is common, I think, among most successful entrepreneurs. We decided to have sales and networking for your venture because we realized that selling is a key skill to kind of advance their vision. If you're an entrepreneur, if you're trying to win business, if you're trying to drum up, you know, sort of buzz around your business, I would say get on Twitter, ASAP, but also understand how to use it. Hone in on what it is that you want to get out of this networking. Are you networking towards investors? Are you networking towards potential clients? The ability to really shape any idea or thing that you're having about, not only why it matters macroly, but why it matters to the person or group that you're talking to is incredibly important. It's all about effective communication. Formulate your message properly. Figure out what you need to say to the appropriate audience. In the end is the ideas that translate into action, and values and ventures are those that matter.