{"id":113,"date":"2011-03-22T15:56:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-22T15:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/?p=113"},"modified":"2011-04-01T08:43:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T08:43:50","slug":"in-silicon-valley-being-nice-and-persistent-opens-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/in-silicon-valley-being-nice-and-persistent-opens-doors\/","title":{"rendered":"In Silicon Valley, Being Helpful and Persistent Opens Doors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Yu-Kai Chou, the founder of RewardMe, a cool iPhone app for restaurant rewards. On Friday, Yu-Kai got to sit down with prominent investor Jeff Clavier for a one-hour lunch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"460\" height=\"289\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wbgq09gtMk0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nHow did Yu-Kai separate himself from the countless aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley? By being persistent. First, he joined <a href=\"http:\/\/letslunch.com\">LetsLunch<\/a> and started meeting other entrepreneurs over lunch, with no set agenda, just to network. By consistently being nice and helpful with everyone, he quickly emerged from the lot. That&#8217;s how you open doors in Silicon Valley: you never know if the next person you are chatting with may later make an introduction that will change your startup.\n<\/p>\n<p>All the team at LetsLunch wish Yu-Kai the best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meet Yu-Kai Chou, the founder of RewardMe, a cool iPhone app for restaurant rewards. On Friday, Yu-Kai got to sit down with prominent investor Jeff Clavier for a one-hour lunch. How did Yu-Kai separate himself from the countless aspiring entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley? By being persistent. First, he joined LetsLunch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letslunch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}