Many people are living their opportunities, problems, and so on in parallel to one another. When I see a friend who is struggling with a fundraise issue, and I see another friend struggling with the same issue, I like to connect the two folks - they have so much in common that the companionship is worth the price of admission. Anything else is a bonus and so I do what I can to connect parallel tracks.
But unfortunately there's not yet a seamless way to connect these parallel tracks. For example, how much better would it be if a person with the opportunity of an acquisition could be connected to someone else going through the same thing. It'd still be tremendously beneficial if that person could commiserate with someone who is even remotely close to what they're seeing. But right now the knowledge around the need and opportunity to connect two parallel tracks is trapped in one person's head. It needs to be distributed and open, thus solving the information asymmetry problem.
Mentorship, groups, associations, and support networks are all trying to solve this problem but none of them quite solve the issue. If you can figure out how to make this a magical experience, there's a big opportunity here to do something meaningful.
