Diversification — or, spreading out your stock purchases
among several different sectors and industries — can spread out your risk by limiting your losses if one or two stocks go south.
In addition to vendors, the event gathers people
from several different sectors, from journalists looking to scour the latest trends in food to distributors looking for hot new products to stock their shelves with.
I had the resources, I was in a big ultramodern laboratory
with several different sectors collaborating fully together, and I had wonderful supervisors supporting my ideas in every way they could.