Socializing
Do you have to when working in a startup? Patronizing investors and founders?
How about seeing it as a way to learn more things about the ecosystem, and the industry that you are entering into? The folks who may be your next mentors, the fellow who share insights with you that may just shorten the unnecessary path to walk?
Everyone has 24 hours in a day but not everyone uses it the same.
Socializing can be a waste of time if you do not know what are you doing but it can rewarding if you calculate down what you want to achieve from a session of talks and sharing as you take and give with others too.
It is worthwhile when you learn not just about others but also about self-discovery about who you are when running a business too. There is so much to learn about others but the fundament will be about you and your thoughts as you put things together into executions later.
Go out and ask good questions for others to share their knowledge.