Growing My Social Capital: Week 10

The Domain Expert: Steven Ritz, Green Bronx Project

Steven Ritz is an elementary school teacher in The Bronx, NY. He is also the head of The Green Bronx Project, the project of which my company is based off of. I emailed him back in December asking to get a tour of the school. He actually didn’t respond in time but because I emailed him back then, it was easy for me to follow up with him now. 

The Market Expert: 

Radha Agrawal, Founder of Supersprowtz
Radha Agrawal is the founder of Supersprowtz, a company that promotes healthy eating to kids. I knew her because I used to work forher twin sister, Miki Agrawal. I think working for her sister gave me an advantage and I don't feel like I owe her any favors. I promote her companies a lot (I'm a huge fan). That being said, if there was every anything she needed I would help out immediately. 

The Supplier: Veronica, HM Clause

HM CLause is a seed distributor. I actually presented this idea to them already and they really liked it. They said it was extremely feasible and that I had covered all of the potential risks involved.  I met Veronica from a program I’m in, Challenge 2050. Veronica was eager to talk to me about how this would would work within HM Clause. Since I've met her in person, I feel that it was easier for me to reach out to her. As a return favor, I am to email my friends about the internships they are having this summer.

Reflection: I would say this experience has differed from my networking in the past because I was reaching out to people for specific reasons. I feel like most networking I've done has been in order to put certain people "in my back pocket" and not as much straight and to the point.