20 A Growing Social Capital

Expert in the field

I spoke with Greg a biomedical engineer. He has been working for 10 years and has recently relocated to Florida via California. He works for Scrips. We had a quick chat over the phone about my idea. He was intrigued by my prospect. He is familiar with the original prototype, larger scale devise at Hopkins. He advised this would take Many years before it could get to the market. He asked for nothing in return.


Expert in my market.

Through the contacts I’ve made, I was referred to Andy. He is a medical sales rep from Novartis. He has been a nurse for 20 years and a medical sales rep for 5 years. I contacted him via phone and we met at a local Starbucks since he was going to be in my area. We spoke at length about the devise and how I came up with the idea. While he mainly focuses on pharmaceutical sales he thought the idea was great. He said getting into this business on that level is very tough. There are a lot of manufactures with a lot of clout and government backing. He advised I clean up my pitch a little more and contact one of these companies. He didn’t ask for anything in return. I found his insight to be valuable.


Supplier to your industry.

I reached out to a supplier but haven’t heard back


This experience did different from previous assignments because I dealing more on the technical level. While I have the idea I didn’t know exactly how I would execute it. after speaking with Andy and Greg I have a better understanding of what will be required to bring this idea to fruition.