Friday, November 1, 2019

20A – Growing Your Social Capital

             1  Domain Expert
The first person I manage to come in contact would be my uncle Hector from Spain. He been working over 20 year as manager for software company. He used to naval officer in Venezuela and had graduate as software engineering, before he switch to a more managerial job I came to contact with him through a Skype call. He is a general manager for a software company. At such I count him in as domain expert, due to him working in the general field business manager who specialized in software programming. The call was mainly to ask him how goes around making business deal. How much travel is required doing business internationally for his software company. How does the company go around recruiting people and how are they being train for the job? This question was done to get information on how a software company should generally be run. This contact

             2  Market Expert
The second person I manage to come in contact was an employee for company that manage app that have been label as productivity app. Thus, hoping to come in contact with someone who is an expert on my market This was done through use of contact option to ask for possible interview how they operate their business. Most didn’t respond, but one employee from those company did reply. A why I did not get any information from any employee responsible with management of the app. The person took pity, an while they did tell me bit on how to manage PR and deal with customer support regarding technical problem their app user they might have. As that what they specialized in. This contact is not particular strong and did not provide much information regarding my market. But does provide opportunity to get good pr hire for company once my app finally launches. An did give me information on how to manage my app general
  
      3  Industry Supplier
Third person Betfred is a neighbor of mine who work as freelance software programmer. I pick him as a supplier contact for this assignment, He had amicable relationship with my parent, as his family has invited us to his house party that he holds a lot in his house. Their family is very social having many friends, at such getting a interview with him was not too hard. I mainly ask thing from a business perspective. At such I ask thing like how much would be the app I desired could cost with the feature I want. Sadly, I could not get estimate, as he said he need a lot more information and what type of software engine to give those estimates. He did give me information on the average wage per hour for software programmer that does app. He told how get hired for a job and were too looked to hire a software programmer. In general, this contact gave me access to some information for how much money would be needed to invest project. Also, this contact would allow me, when I progress my business idea have someone to hire or ask assistance in making sure I not getting scammed in term of payment for freelance software engineer

Overall, I had a lot of difficult getting people specifically related my field to give assistance. Still I was please to have been able to make some contact regarding my business idea. For the second one I did not get much information, but it shows sending a lot of email will provide some progress and result. At such trying to contact people should be attempted, if there is not contact. Lastly this show me business idea should be based on your contact circle, as if my idea were more medical based. As do to my father mother and older sister working on medical field means that if my idea needed people in that field. I could get them to introduce me to their coworker or bosses for interview. As I have met them before, this will give a much stronger contact circle for that type of business idea more easily. Compare to contact circle for my business email that involve having to have contact through email to contact a stranger to met one of my contact goals. Still thing rarely start from zero and feel like the contact I made serve a solid foundation to met more to help with my business idea.


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