A network of contacts. Experience is valuable not only for knowing how other companies do things, but also for helping you form a network that will get your new company up and running more quickly.

经验的价值不仅仅在于知道其它公司如何做事，而且还帮助你形成一个网络，让你新公司启动后更快运行。

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We know that entrepreneurs who have more diverse networks, and more contacts are more likely to get disconfirming information.

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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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Although the Twitter message helped him find contacts to get out of prison, he says it was more the power of the network he had as an American that enabled him to be released so quickly.

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