Assignment 20A – Growing Your Social Capital

Growing Your Social Capital

Domain Expert:

1. Who they are, what is their background is: Patrick a social worker at the Hospital

2. How this person is a "domain expert": He has to directly work with people in the hospital, so he has first hand experience talking to patients about what are some of the problems that they find or their experiences.

3.How I found and contacted this person: They work in the hospital with my mom, so he was able to give me a call and I was able to ask him questions.

4. Nature of Exchange: What they did for me, what is the return expectation: I went over some of the details of my idea and how it would work, he seemed to really like the idea. What surprised me is him saying that he wants more people feeling okay enough to contact their doctor and this takes some of the stress and anxiety out of the experience.

5. How will including them enhance my ability to exploit an opportunity: He was very insightful about how a patients thinks or feels, he also reminded me that their are different type of people coming from different type of backgrounds. Some people may not have the resources or availability to use the app which is something we have to keep in mind. 

Market Expert: 
1. Who they are, what their background is: Nadya, she works in a clinic and is in charge of talking to patients and their medical providers. 
2. How this person is a "market expert": She does not necessarily do research in this are but she does know a lot about talking to patients and has accumulated a lot of experience.
3. How I found and contacted this person: I was going to a doctor's visit with someone else and while I was waiting for the person to finish with the doctor, I decided to speak with her. 
4. Nature of exchange: What they did for me, what is the return expectation:  It was a nice casual conversation hat really opened my eyes to how tired she gets at having to argue with people at time because they misunderstand are were not able to reached. She was interested but was worried about how she would be able to work with this system. 
5. How will including them enhance my ability to exploit an opportunity: Including her allows for me to speak to patients better and know how to communicate them through text that will be appropriate for patients. 

Industry Supplier:
1. Who they are, what their background is: Amanda, she works for Medtronics 
2. How is this person a "industry supplier": She works part time for Medtronics and also started her own cosmetic company. So she knows about working in the medical field without it being clinical and starting her business. 
3. How I found and contacted this person: I knew her through the boss of the job that I had worked at, she needed some extra help and I got to learn more about her. 
4. Nature of exchange: What they did for me, what is the return expectation: I called her and asked her more about what it is like to work at a large medical provider and how they communicate with their clients, she was able to help me and then tell me how she had time where she thought she should just drop the business all together. She had times where she struggled but it was thing that she was most passionate about so she kept at it. 
5. How will including them enhance my ability to exploit an opportunity: I gained more of a look into how hard yet reward gin it can be to into my own business, which is not what I was initially going in but it helped a lot when it comes to trying to see if I could make this a reality.  

Reflect: This experience requires you to do a little'targeted networking.' How will this experience shape how you participate in any future networking events? Did this experience differ from your networking in the past? How?
- One thing is learned from this that sometimes it is important to speak to people that are more than just the ones in suits with the money, because sometimes others have a different experience set level that can help when it comes to your own experiences. I also need to be more willing to go out there and ask questions because my time is just as valuable as others.