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How to Connect With Kevin Koym

July 18, 2019 by kevin Leave a Comment

I receive an overwhelming amount of correspondence on a daily basis, most of which are requests of me. I’ve helped more than 6,500 entrepreneurs and I keep active relations with the entrepreneurs whom I have worked with. I love helping people and I am happy to help you in whatever way I can. 

That being said, there are some best practices for contacting me, especially if you are making a request or need a response from me. 

Social media is an incredible tool to connect people. However, social networking platforms, especially Facebook Messenger,  are not conducive for my work-related communication flow… as I don’t have an easy way to get my team involved in messages that I get through Facebook Messenger. Due to time restraints, I no longer check Facebook Messenger. You can send a post to me, just make sure that its clear and actionable.

Then what is the best way to ask you a question, request information, or receive help/advice?

Sign up for one of our programs!  If you’re an entrepreneur growing your business check out Tech Ranch’s programs that I and my team have designed for supporting entrepreneurs.

If you’re a corporation looking to drive disruptive innovation through your organization and you’d like support on building a skunkworks or engaging open innovation, let me and my team know via this join form. More details about our work is available here at the Tech Ranch website.

If you’re just looking to engage me directly on a consulting engagement, I take on a limited number of office hours. Book through this Calendly Link and get immediately on my calendar.

Additional tips for generating a response:

  • Be direct. Tell me who you are and how I can help you in the very first message you send. Don’t tell me “how are you?”.  While I am not opposed to starting an open dialogue, I can help you more efficiently if you directly articulate what you specifically need from me (include deadlines!)
  • Limited number of unrequested solicitations. Because I am publicly visible, I get a lot of offers on different products and services. If your company sells services, know that I get a LOT of offers. Please don’t spam me with multiple messages (when this happens on LinkedIn as example, I delete the relationship).
  • Include any and all relevant information. While it is important to be direct and get to the point, it is also important to make sure to include any information that might be relevant so that I can be informed without having to go back and forth asking and answering questions. Links to webpages or Google Documents that contain important information are more efficient than attaching large document files. 
  • Reply to the same email thread, instead of starting a new thread. That way I can quickly reference any previous correspondence and response faster. 

 

 

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: communication, connecting, email, entreperneurship technology startup, entrepreneurs, Kevin Koym, reaching Kevin, workflow

6 Subtle Things Highly Productive People Do Every Day – Business Insider

June 5, 2014 by kevin Leave a Comment

Here’s a great article of 6 things that help being productive.  I find this list od link insightful = especially #4 – spending more time eliminating distractions versus just working faster.

  1. Manage Your Mood
  2. Don’t Check Email in The Morning
  3. Before You Try To Do It Faster, Ask Whether It Should Be Done At All
  4. Focus Is Nothing More Than Eliminating Distractions
  5. Have A Personal System
  6. Define Your Goals The Night Before

via 6 Subtle Things Highly Productive People Do Every Day – Business Insider.

Filed Under: general

Challenging Conventions

May 23, 2014 by kevin Leave a Comment

Seth Godin recently shared a short blog post about challenging conventions.  As innovators, we’re challenging convention all of the time… yet we must be consciously clear which conventions that we’re intending to challenge, and do this with a designer’s eye.  This is a great admonition- be careful to not break all of the eggs to make an omlette, only the eggs that you’re intending to do so, and that are needed to do so.

Challenging conventions is precisely what makes your thing new. Hence unconventional. The difficulty comes when you challenge conventions and defy expectations that you weren’t planning on upsetting. The inadvertent skipping of what we expect causes you to frustrate us, or to appear as an uncaring, unprepared amateur, or both.

via Seth’s Blog: Conventions and expectations.

Filed Under: innovation

Injury as Teacher, Failure as Teacher

April 26, 2014 by kevin Leave a Comment

Today I had the honor of leading Aikido class at the dojo (martial arts training hall) that I have been practicing at over the last decade.  Although I am a second degree blackbelt, and have been training for the last 16 years, as might be somewhat traditional, I taught Aikido basic techniques.  No matter how long I train, and no matter how much experience I might have, the basics are always something to return to in sharing Aikido with others.  To offer a new lense on the basics, I shared experience of being injured to be the frame to look at basic techniques through- exploring how loosing some ability (due to injury) taught me to learn the underlying Aikido technique better.

Many Aikido techniques can be simulated with too much strength being used- trying to overpower the person that a student is practicing with…  yet that’s not true Aikido.  Aikido can be very powerful, yet in many ways its very subtle in how the technique  attaches to an attacker’s attack, and harmoniously ends the attack. Learning how to be subtle, to be gentle, and through doing so, generating more ability to respond to an attacker.

Yet in getting to learn this subtlety, injuries do happen in Aikido (as in life 🙂

What’s interesting is that its because of some of these injuries I, as a 205 pound male who is use to using his strength, at times have had to “re-learn” how to be more subtle.  On the Aikido mat, I have broken my left foot, separated my right shoulder, ripped my right knee (ACL), and broken my nose, among other injuries.  Each of these injuries has been a training tool… forcing me to not to be able to use my strength as I tenderly try to heal an injury while still training.  Each injury has a lesson that it offers, especially while the injury hasn’t healed, on how to be more subtle in the technique, requiring less physical power, yet creating an even more powerful ability to throw an attacker.

As a side note, its because of the use of subtlety that women or a youth or a smaller framed man can master Aikido perhaps faster than a “stronger” male- and have an effective means of defense in protecting themselves… those of us use to having sheer strength are, in a way,  at a disadvantage to learning the subtlety of Aikido. In my case, that’s why I have learned so much after an injury.

What’s an example of this injury teaching process?  One example- when I ripped my right knee ACL a year ago, I had problems stabilizing myself when moving quickly on the mat.  My ACL ligament’s condition forced me to find stability in my muscles for the ACL wasn’t there there to hold me stable naturally.  Relying on my muscles for stability made me bend my knees even more, bringing me closer to the stance that my Aikido teacher always told me to do before injury (the lower to the earth an Aikido student is, the more power he/she can generate from their legs in a throw).  So now its been a year later since the injury, and I am at least 5 inches closer to the ground when executing a throw… and through this need, I’ve become a stronger Aikido practitioner, even though my injury has not yet fully healed.

There are many lessons that I offer from this idea, and as i have found Aikido to present insight for life, and insight for entrepreneurship. First, realize that injuries happen.. and many times injuries end up offering a way to learn a practice (like Aikido, like entrepreneurship) at a deeper level.  Learning how to avoid getting hurt is important, yet, when getting hurt, or perhaps as in entrepreneurship hitting a business failure, see if you can, what is possible to be learned from the hurt, and go deeper. You’ll take your insight to a more subtle level in the practice that you’re following.

Filed Under: entrepreneurship, inspiration, risk

The Future That We Create

February 9, 2014 by kevin Leave a Comment

A financial instrument can be designed in the mind of a man that enslaves 10,000.  A weapons system can be designed in the mind of man that kills as many, if not many more.  As well, today’s productivity enhancements have the possibility of going two ways.  One of these directions can further separate and enslave people at a level that’s never been imagined before… or to liberate people from the world of work in a way never imaged before.  The question is what mental models are we operating in?  What mental models are we opening up that make it possible that our next technology moves end up liberating versus enslaving?  What part of our present simple historical economic understanding and the labels of the past (e.g. Socialism, Capitalism, Communism) must we break apart to develop a new, deeper understanding of the future that we can build together?  Its time to look beyond the past, to realize that we’re in a new world, and this new world is coming at an ever increasing rate.  Models of old don’t work here anymore.  Its time to wake up, and build anew the world that we want with the technology this is coming.

Inspired by the thinking of Buckminister Fuller

Filed Under: future, inspiration

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