Startups, please don’t hire a biz dev person

GUEST: There are an awful lot of people with empty calendars. How do I know? My inbox tells me. Many of them are filling that time by sending me messages like these:
“I am going to be in town next week and would love to meet.”
“I am always looking to network and learn more about people and the companies they own or work for.”
“Can we partner?”
These are all lines from emails or LinkedIn messages that I have received in the last week. And guess who sent them &m