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How to Connect With Kevin Koym

July 18, 2019 by kkoym 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

NanoTX Presentation: Enterprise Tribes: Supporting Emerging Tech Startups In the Age of Web 2.0

October 1, 2008 by kkoym Leave a Comment

I am honored to be presenting at this year’s Nano Technology Summit in Dallas, Texas- called NanoTX with a number of Nobel Laureates and other technology experts. Following is info on the speech that I will be giving.  Please make sure to call me or twitter me if you happen to be at the event.

Enterprise Tribes: Supporting Emerging Tech Startups In the Age of Web 2.0

Failure to receive support early enough in the startup cycle is a challenge that has kept many promising technologies from ever making it to the market. Venture capital and angel investment have their place, but most financial capital cannot invest in high-risk ventures at the earliest stages. The fate of the typical entrepreneur has been to build his business through sweat, credit cards and friends-and-family investments. But now, social networking technologies are making increasing amounts of social capital available – significantly reducing financial costs faced by entrepreneurs. Mr. Koym shares stories of startups that use social capital in place of cash and the principles that benefit emerging technologies companies – whether bootstrapped or investor-backed.

One page abstract:  for Track 5:  Business & Economic Development

The sad truth standing in the way of getting many promising technologies to market is that most startup support programs don’t work early enough in the startup cycle to be significant at the times of entrepreneurs’ greatest need.  Venture capital and angel investment certainly have their place, but most financial capital cannot invest in high risk at the earliest stages. Until recently, the typical entrepreneur stood alone in building his business through his own sweat, credit card and the cash offered up by friends and family. However, social networking technologies now are creating opportunities to significantly reduce the financial cost of building a business, by making social capital more widely and easily accessible.  In this speech, Mr. Koym will share examples of startups that are leveraging social capital in lieu of financial capital and the principles that work for companies in the emerging technologies arena.

As a technology visionary, including predicting and ushering in web based eCommerce in 1994 and building the startup company that subsequently leading Dell Computer Corporation’s billion dollar eCommerce site in 1996; Predicting the usage of Linux in embedded devices in 2002, subsequently leading the deployment of this startup’s products across Schlumberger’s world wide network; Mr. Koym now is charting where social networking technologies are opening up opportunities to change the face of entrepreneurship, culminating in four conceptual shifts that he sees will drive change across the five domains of the individual, the corporation, the enterprise tribe, on demand services, and governments.

The Four Conceptual Shifts that Mr. Koym is predicting will show up in the following ways:
1.    Superempowerment of the individual, where individuals exchange the mythical stability of a corporate job for the stability of self-employment, producing an entrepreneurial mindset that creates a truly resilient workforce.
2.    New open corporate structures that allow much greater flexibility by coordinating many outside players in an open, yet not vulnerable, value chain
3.    The rise of the Enterprise Tribe- a presently emerging social structure where entrepreneurs connect and support each other much in ways resembling America’s agrarian past
4.    A “Chinese menu” of on demand, robust, Internet delivered services, organized by vendors large and small
5.    Governments that become agile, and in many times, partially replaced by grass-roots community efforts organized through social networks.

Filed Under: enterprise 2.0, entrepreneurship, The Enterprise Tribe Tagged With: entreperneurship technology startup

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