Networking and Collaboration

Nowadays when you think about innovation, collaboration schemes are used to enhance ideas, products, services or just to create something new. For me it's a way to do intentional networking.

I'm going to present some examples on how collaboration has promoted or changed some of everyday activities and so different in the past.

Musical Collaboration: For sure you have listened singers that have made different musical collaborations, this mixes have taken them to explore rhythms, musical tendencies, and then they came back with a different proposal that works. Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Shakira, Ricky Martin had made their carriers by doing important collaborations that lead them to reach different audiences.

Food Collaboration: Maybe you are familiarized with Gaston Acurio proposal, he is a well known chef with 34 restaurants among 11 different countries. His popularity increased when he collaborated with colleagues and cooks to improve the taste of the food he was offering to his customers. He had a TV show and share with the people his recipes, sometimes he had feedback and improved them. Thanks to this collaboration, Peruvian food is now worldwide recognized among the best.

Entrepreneurship Collaboration: Do you have a good idea, but lack of the monetary funds to put it on practice? Use collaboration, there are a lot of well-intended people that are interested in changing this world, invest their money towards progress and have a little fun on the side. Kickstarter its a web page that allows entrepreneurs to post their projects and share them. If you are a regular people you may invest on a project that you found interesting. When the project gets the requested funds, it became an obligation to make true the project, some of them have gained and surpassed the money that they have assured their product sales for the rest of the year.

So when you have a good idea, consider to share it with more people, maybe transform your idea in a joint project. And don't forget to change to a Networking Mindset attitude.