Ordinarily I'd agree... but as another commenter pointed out, there are issues with small towns... but there's also a time-issue involved.
I created this idea because I'm a hacker, and needed to find business guys... it's taken me a year of joining every entrepreneur/networking group in London - ad I'm now starting to be confident that I know which ones to bother with and which to avoid.
I can imagine that it'd be even worse prospect for a business guy trying the other way around... which of five hundred "user groups" would a know-nothing business guy join to go find smart hackers that can get things done?
As a newbie, you'll join a lot of the wrong groups... and waste a lot of time at them. The two different crowds have an extremely small overlap... this site is intended to cut across the networks (well be going to networks on either side), and cuts through a lot of the time spent searching.
ie - first find a few people that might match your needs, then go join their network and see if you like it (kinda like the "first date")... then see where it leads from there.
I created this idea because I'm a hacker, and needed to find business guys... it's taken me a year of joining every entrepreneur/networking group in London - ad I'm now starting to be confident that I know which ones to bother with and which to avoid.
I can imagine that it'd be even worse prospect for a business guy trying the other way around... which of five hundred "user groups" would a know-nothing business guy join to go find smart hackers that can get things done?
As a newbie, you'll join a lot of the wrong groups... and waste a lot of time at them. The two different crowds have an extremely small overlap... this site is intended to cut across the networks (well be going to networks on either side), and cuts through a lot of the time spent searching.
ie - first find a few people that might match your needs, then go join their network and see if you like it (kinda like the "first date")... then see where it leads from there.