Growing My Social Capital

1) First, an acquaintance of mine that I met named Jonathan. Jonathan is responsible for coding an app that is popular in the area. I would need someone with technical coding skills to help me code my app, squeakyclean. Another acquantince of mine who works with Jonathan, Ben, is targeting a very similar audience that squeakyclean would target, young college students. Finally the last person who works on this app with Jon and Ben, his name is Richard. He works with companies that process debit card and credit card transactions through their app. This would be very important for app because there will be money exchanged.

2) Jonathan is the domain expert, he knows phone applications.
Ben is the expert in the market because we both have similar audeince targets.
Richard is the supply expert because he knows how to work money exchange with is necessary in making my app function.

3) I actually met the app crew through using their app. They eventually contacted me to tell me that I was using the app more than anyone and we had several discussions since then and they often ask me questions on improving their app. The haven't done me any favors per se but I enjoy their app and I appreciate that they want my feedback. Makes me feel like a very valuable customer.

4) Having this team in my network pool is incredibly helpful. Besides a few aspects are applications are quite similar in their underlying functions.

5) This networking instance was very random and unplanned. Just goes to show that anyone you met can be very important later on.