Haveo · Networking for introverts
How many people should you talk to?
Two or three real conversations is a good night. Counting introductions measures the wrong thing — one person who remembers a real conversation with you is worth more than twenty who half-recall your name, and the twenty is the harder evening.
Why more is not better
The value of an event is the people who would recognize your name next month. That number is almost never improved by circulating faster.
Twenty introductions produces twenty people who cannot say what you do. That is not a network, it is an evening.
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What a real conversation looks like
Long enough that you both said something specific about your actual work. Usually five to fifteen minutes.
You should be able to write one line about them afterwards that is not on their LinkedIn. That is the test.
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Set the number before you go
"Two real conversations and I can leave" is a goal you can finish. Finishing it is what lets you stop, and stopping is what makes it repeatable.
An open-ended evening has no success condition, so it always ends in the feeling that you should have done more.
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If you get one
One good conversation is still a good night. The events people remember as worthwhile almost always turn out to have been one conversation, not eight.
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Rehearse it before you walk in.
Haveo builds your intro, lets you practice out loud with an AI coach, and keeps your notes one tap away in the room. Free on iPhone and iPad.
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