This is how successful dealmakers build their network

• A new generation of managers, entrepreneurs and financiers is going their own way to initiate the next deals or make the next career step clear.
• The legal rules have become stricter and your own reputation is a more valuable asset than ever. Lavish expense events are out, a well-maintained presence on LinkedIn is the new business card.
• But where do consultants, lawyers, investment bankers or private equity managers meet their future customers today? And what “dos and don’ts” need to be taken into account?

Some consider it to be the German Davos: for more than a decade, Cornelius “Conny” Boersch has been inviting people to his entrepreneurial day in the Tegernsee Valley in the spring. The tech investor and entrepreneur who lives in Switzerland books almost all of the five-star Hotel Überfahrt in Rottach-Egern on Lake Tegernsee.