This one lands close to home for one of our projects at HIKOMORE, Ospitality.
Hospitality runs on relationships.
Turns out, so does building a startup.
Every conversation last weekend taught us something, or handed us someone worth knowing.
Off to find the next room.
One breakfast. Days later, a VIP summit invite.
Amu's networking breakfast, she got talking to an investor over coffee.
By the weekend, she was VIP at the Global Woman Summit.
We're still clocking how fast that moved.
Networking isn't walking out with a deal.
It's putting yourself in the right rooms and letting conversations do the work over time.
One breakfast proved that faster than a hundred cold emails ever would.
We went to the basement. Laptop out.
Human QA had flagged six issues pre-launch.
Pointed Codex at the report.
Fixed. Back to QA in 20 minutes.
That used to be a 2-3 hour job.
Build the smallest thing that carries your vision.
Everything else is overhead.
His co-founder got hurt. He never needed him back.
We met this founder at the Codex Builders' Lounge in London last night.
His CTO got injured mid-project.
So he opened Codex. And kept building.
Another conversation. A harder one.
You can build for hours, burn tokens, ship something beautiful.
No distribution in your market?
It dissipates. Vapour project.
Building was never the hard bit.
Still isn't.