Growing your Social Capital

Interviewee #1

1)    Rafael Intraigo is my uncle who lives in Ecuador and he is an expert in my business idea because he is the main provider to all restaurants and any business that sell any product ranging from Coca Cola to multiple other non-alcoholic beverages in Ecuador. He is the owner of a company that basically middle mans the elite international beverages to all companies that sell to consumers like for example super markets and restaurants.

2)    Domain expert in my industry.

3)    He is my uncle so I have his phone number on my phone and gave him a call through What’s App in order to conduct an interview over the phone.

4)    He does not expect anything back from me because he is my family, all he would want back form me is to get good grades and excel in University here in the United States.

5)    Including my uncle Rafael in my network would enhance my ability to exploit my opportunity immensely because even though his business is located in Ecuador he has many contacts here in the United States that would be able to benefit my idea.

                    

                  Interviewee #2

1)    My best friend’s father Orlando Faroh is one of the people in my life I consider very experienced in the field of consumer consumption because he owns factories all across South America pertaining to sea food products. He is a third-generation owner his grandfather started this business in Venezuela decades ago and Orlando has now expanded to multiple other countries throughout South America owning many factories that can tuna and a bunch of other sea food products you can find at your everyday super market.

2)    Market expert in my industry.

3)    I simply asked my best friend Carlos if I could give him a call and to please shoot me his phone number. He did and I also conducted the interview over the phone on What’s App because he spends most of his time overseas.

4)    Orlando does not expect anything in return for me he sees it as a favor he is doing his sons best-friend, the last thing this man needs is money.

5)    Having Orlando in my network can improve my business idea monumentally because of all the experience in the consumer market he has obtained, he just turned 60 years of age and still working hard.

                   

                     Interviewee #3

1)    My very close friend Valentina Dioguardi works at a food distribution business owned by her father Marcos Dioguardi, I have known her and her family since I was in elementary school. Her father is a very successful business man that owns a food distribution business where he distributes whatever he can get his hands on ranging all the way from popcorn to chicken noodle soup in a can. He has been working in this industry for decades and has built himself quite the empire. He now distributes to Publix and Sam’s Club, along with multiple other supermarket chains and makes a living from this industry.

2)    Important supplier for my industry.

3)    My very close friend from elementary school could provide me her father’s phone number so I gave him a normal call not What’s app because he works within this country. I conducted the interview through a brief phone call because I did not want to waste this busy man’s time.

4)    There was no nature of exchange because like I said Marcos has known me since I was a very little boy and he did not mind answering a few of the questions I pertaining to the industry he is in.

5)    If I include Marcos Dioguardi in my network there is no doubt he could help me find a way to distribute my product throughout the country or at the very least Florida through all the experiences and people he knows. He would be able to distribute my product as well once all the licensing and legal matters that correlate to my product are sorted out.

                  Reflection: This experience will help me in my future endeavors that pertain to networking because I realized how all three of these successful business men have many things in common. Not only because they all belong to the same industry but because they are all very organized and strong willed individuals that have made their companies grow through the efforts of hard work and dedication. I realized all three of them being very successful value the effort people put in to work more than anything else, therefore, in my future networking events I will be sure to demonstrate I have the will power and am willing to put in the effort necessary to complete any task. The main way this experience differs from my past experiences is because of the fact I had to network over the phone and usually when I have networked in the past it includes being face to face with the person I am networking with.