1. The person I talked was my uncle Guangyu Li. He owns a raw material factory for small commodities in Wenzhou, China.
2. I am filling the domain expert with this person because he is a technical expert who knows a lot about the product I want to produce which is the iPhone case.
3. We know each other for a long time, so I just call and talk to him directly.
4. He is willing to solve the technical issue for producing the phone case, and he is also willing to have a partnership with my company.
5. Since I think he is already a successful entrepreneur, I can learn a lot from his business both in technical level and conceptual level.
Market expert:
1. For the market expert, I talked to my cousin Lin Wang. She runs a WeChat business (WeChat is a social software originate in China. She use this software to sell different products to people she knows or her friends know).
2. I am filling the market expert with her. She is targeting my market with similar products services, and she knows about the customer behavior.
3. I use WeChat to talk with her.
4. She can teach me how to do business in WeChat in order to develop the Chinese market.
5. I can learn something about the customer behavior and the online sales experience.
Supply expert:
1. Since our service is an online service, so I talked one of my father's friend named Yang Li. He is a manager in ZTO Express ( an express delivery company in China).
2. I am filling the supply expert with him because I have to have a partnership with the company like this to provide our service and products to our customer.
3. I can find this person because of my father's advice. He introduced this manager to me, and we communicated by email.
4. He is willing to introduce the whole industry chain about the express delivery in China.
5. Since I learned something about the express delivery service, I can easily know how to work with them to develop our service.
Reflection:
This experience definitely differs from my networking experiences in the past. I have to talk to someone I know or I don't know about the topic I have never think about before. These conversations with them are really helpful. Even I don't run a real business now, it gave me the irreplaceable experience than before. Therefore, I think this helps a lot if I run my service company in the future.
Aobo,
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you definitely have some great connections to potentially help launch your future iphone case business! I think that communicating with those who have actual hands on experience is a phenomenal opportunity for us to grow and learn ourselves. You seem to have great resources that could definitely give your business that head start in the future!
ey Aobo
ReplyDeleteGreat post and believe that you successfully explained how you could grow your social capital. I believe that it is important to surround yourself with people that could bring your business to the next level and I think all of the people you listed could help you. All in all, you did a good job, keep up the good work.