{"id":1266,"date":"2011-09-14T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=1266"},"modified":"2011-09-14T08:07:40","modified_gmt":"2011-09-14T12:07:40","slug":"a-case-study-in-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2011\/a-case-study-in-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case Study in Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"il_fi\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/beyondmargins.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/networking-is-crucial-to-a-business.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Building a good network is on the to-do list of every business professional, and many have questions about how to create that network. Well, if you&#8217;ve got a few million dollars sitting around, we have just the solution for you! You can follow <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/53M-Dinners-With-Warren-cnbc-69876001.html?x=0\">this example<\/a> and buy yourself a couple dinners with Warren Buffett. That&#8217;s exactly what one man did, and now he&#8217;s buying stocks for Berkshire Hathaway &#8211; no doubt one of the most coveted jobs for anyone working in finance. The dinners were bought at Buffett&#8217;s &#8220;Power Lunch&#8221; auction at around $2.6 million each. Apparently Buffett and the winner got along well and a job offer was given and accepted. This approach may not be quite so practical for most people, though, so I don&#8217;t think LinkedIn has to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2011\/linkedin-gains-sees-a-rise-in-revenue\/\">worry about being forgotten<\/a> in favor of a new trend quite yet.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/\">Yahoo<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building a good network is on the to-do list of every business professional, and many have questions about how to create that network. Well, if you&#8217;ve got a few million dollars sitting around, we have just the solution for you! You can follow this example and buy yourself a couple dinners with Warren Buffett. That&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1268,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions\/1268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}