Apr 29, 10 1:56am Permalink Me: Successful entrepreneurs and successful daters in New York have the same skill set: an inexplicable persistence and unflagging, delusional optimism. Friend: Why does every analogy always have to come back to dating? It's always about dating. Me: It's not always about dating, in the courtship sense. But it IS always about relationships. Everything important in this world, when it comes down to it, is a relationship.