u/Ok_Factorreset

I'm choosing between colleges right now and I've realised that I don't really know how to judge something like "network." Everyone says a good university gives you a strong network, but what does that mean in reality?

Is it just having successful alumni, or is it more about the people you actually spend your four years with? I am not an exam ranker so the big american names are already out of my reach.

I've grown a bit attracted to tetr where the whole model seems to revolve around putting students around founders, companies and people from different industries. Would you actually consider that when choosing a college? Or should I just focus on reputation, alumni and academics?

I hear this often, and now that i'm somewhere past the first bit. For context, I’m 20 and studying at tetr college; for my d2c biz i think the adage is true.

My working theory is that the first thousand is you proving a stranger will pay you at all, and everything after is just repeating something you've already proven works. So the difficulty was never the money. it's that at the start you have no evidence and you're running purely on belief, and belief is expensive.

but i've also heard the exact opposite version. that the first thousand is the easy part because friends and warm intros carry you over the line, and the real wall is 1k to 10k, when you suddenly need actual distribution and you've run out of people who like you.

those can't both be right. which one was closer to what happened to you?