[31reasons]

Its all about relationships with people I guess. It reminds me of this excerpt from a psychology book. "People used to look out on the playground and say that the boys were playing soccer and the girls where doing nothing. But the girls weren't doing nothing- They were talking. They were talking about the world to one another. And they became very expert about that in a way the boys did not"

You can replace 'boys' with 'developers' and 'girls' with 'tech socialites'.

[madaxe]

It's all about having backers who have fingers in pies that they can arm-twist into buying you. It also makes people who have profitable growing startups without funding like yours truly bitter as hell.