20A – Growing Your Social Capital Submit Assignment

Person 1:

1. My uncle is an engineer who has a lot of experience when it comes to being involved with the building of new city items such as a subway. 

2. Domain Expert - because he is a technical expert of the industry that I would like to go into to.

3. He is my uncle so I was fortunate to have him in my life where I can pull knowledge from. I contacted him with this idea to see what he thought of building the subway in major cities.

4. They gave me very valuable information of what it would take to produce this subway.

5. He will continue to provide valuable information and will allow me to get connected with the rest of the field.

Person 2:

1. The president of my Dads, business development/marketing, company was who I contacted when this idea came up.

2. Market Expert, he is well connected with a bunch of major systems. He is constantly marketing and finding interests for his products that he develops..

3. Once again, it helps that I semi knew who this person was and was able to connect with them to enhance my social capital. 

4. He first was more than happy to help, but after hearing the idea he was totally bought in. He wanted to make sure we have a follow up meeting to discuss it more. He said he will always be there for advice and connects.

5. This is the guy who strategizes the product and brings it to market. Extremely valuable. 

Person 3:

1. Owner of a steel company that my dad knew from his years in business. 

2. Supplier

3. I have a LinkedIn, which makes it easier to connect to people who have connected with may dad and can help me.

4. He as well thought it was a great idea and saw an opportunity to make money for himself.

5. He would be a key supplier that will be needed to produce this product.

This is incredible helpful when it comes to helping develop this idea and bring it to life. This different from other networking times because I was pitching my product which caught their attention. They have something to remember me by. This was a great activity.