Oscar Marquina: Your Network Is Your Net Worth

Whenever your niche is real estate, venture, or franchising it’s important to build competency. When you’re starting from zero, the best way to go about it is to surround yourself with people and build a team.

You have to seek relationships with potential mentors. Opportunities to meet great people that have the ability and willingness to guide you rarely fall freely into your lap, you have to find those opportunities.

People tend to play safe when it comes to investing as they are afraid to lose. They don’t realize that in that loss is where experiences are made and those give you the ability to see opportunities that you wouldn’t have seen otherwise.

In venture capital, you’ve got to have the expertise and deep knowledge about the area of your business. You also have to have a network of experts in that field you can trust and that can give you advice on the business.