How do you deal with continuous requests for cooperation?
lsc: Personally, I will have lunch with just about anyone who wants to show up somewhere that I am.  gotta eat anyhow, right?  it takes a little longer.I don't have much advice on where to go from there, though;  I'm free with advice, but I productize my, uh, outputs.I've personally been getting lots of merger/buyout flirtation;  but I've got little interest in selling unless you want silly valuations, and it seems that my company is worth about 1 year of earnings, and it's worth a lot more than that to me, so uh, no go.still, just knowing people in your industry is a very good thing.   And you've gotta eat anyhow, right? so go have lunch with people.  It's kinda fun, too.