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In 2008, Sol Orwell, the co-founder of the nutrition companyExamine.com, was at a loss. He was attending a big digital marketing conference in Seattle, hoping to expand hisnetwork, but the event was so packed that he didn't know where to start. His friend had no such hesitation. He told Orwell he was going to "meet some friends." Twenty minutes later, he returned holding a stack of 40 business cards. "At the time, I was blown away," recalls Orwell, who thought his friend was a networking genius. "But now I think, Did he do anything more than have short conversations?"
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