20A - Growing your Social Capital

1. The first person I contacted is Amanda who I met through a mutual friend. Amanda knows a lot about computer science and developing apps. She is the domain expert. She has made apps in the past that also provide services. I emailed her about my idea, and she thinks she can help me launch my app and fix any bugs that might come up. In return, she said I could place adds for her apps on mine so we could be helping each other out. I think this would be a great contact in the future.


2. The second person I contacted is an ambassador to SAI at UF, I decided to use her as, SAI also proves a service to my marker (UF students). Therefore she is the market expert. My friend actually knew her which is how I was able to find her. I emailed her my idea, and she said that the students will like it and it will be beneficial. In return for her opinion, she asked me to spread the word about what SAI does and their different services. Including this person will help me know more about my market, and it could also give me great exposure, as I can later ask her to tell people about my service.


3. For the supplier spot, I tried contacting companies that sell textbooks, like Pearson. As someone there would be a great contact that I could later use to sell their textbooks on my app. However, they never got back to me and with everything going in with COVID-19 I could not go in person. Any suggestions to help me establish contacts here are welcome, :)


This experience definitely changed the way I thought about social networking as I never really thought about how important it was to build up these relationships that could later help the business.