This is the key for LinkedIn success: transitioning useful contacts from your recreational social circles into your professional circles.

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They can help on negotiations, operating a business, hiring or firing, accounting, finance, legal and probably most useful of all, their contacts.

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Could this be useful for finding new friends and looking up new contacts?

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The start up company may come to nothing, but the real world experience he will get and the contacts he will make will be much more useful to him than any MBA project.

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