Everything You Need to Know About Startup Networking Events You Can Learn from Watching the Bachelor

Aaron Dinin, PhD

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5 min readMar 10, 2020

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If you could take an anonymous poll of tech entrepreneurs to find out how many watch The Bachelor, I suspect the results would surprise you. At the very least, you’d discover plenty of people like me — people who plopped down on the couch next to a spouse watching an episode one evening and, an hour later, found…

Aaron Dinin, PhD

Written by Aaron Dinin, PhD

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I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com

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