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SCRIPPS & THE FORMATION OF O’CONNECT

5/26/2019

 

Scripps & The Formation of O’Connect — evolving a freelance initiative to a boot-strapped startup

美国Scripps和O’Connect APP的诞生 - 将一个自由职业计划发展成为一个初创公司的传奇故事;
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Founder 创始人:Raj Oswal : Nation国籍:USA 美国



Many entrepreneurs are wanting to find the next great business idea but don’t know what product or service to sell. I find that working as a freelancer can lead to new business ideas. For me, I was a freelancer in 2015. I decided to go to a networking event for scientists in Southern California one day. At the event, Dr. Steve, a well-known doctor at a very large science research company called Scripps was speaking. After the event, Dr. Steve was available for questions. Many people in the audience approached him. I also approached him. Even though there were many people in the crowd, I quickly gave him my business card and a 10 second introduction to my small company. We built APPs for clients and I explained it to him. He took my card and thanked me.
许多企业家都想找更伟大的商业理念,但不知道要去销售什么产品或服务。在2015年的时候,那时候我还是个自由职业者,我发现这个工作可以带来新的商机。有一天,我决定去南加州参加一个科学家们的社交活动。在活动上,史蒂夫博士发表了演讲,他是一个在一家名为斯克里普斯的大型科学研究公司的著名医生。活动结束后,史蒂夫博士开始回答记者的问题。观众们蜂拥而至,我也向他走去,尽管人们接踵而至,熙熙攘攘。我速递给他我的名片而后利用10秒的时间对我的公司做了介绍。我和他提到我们的主要业务是帮客户创建APP,他接收了我的名片并寒暄着再见。
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Scripps mHealth and Genomics Signature Conference Brochures
Scripps mHealth和Genomics会议签名手册

A few months later, Dr. Steve sent me an email and asked me into a meeting to present my company and solution. So I prepared. I invited some friends to join me, and we made a nice presentation to show my company and solutions. Dr. Steve and Scripps team was very impressed. We discussed many ideas for an APP project. Finally after another month, Dr. Steve had an idea. He asked us to build an Iphone and Android App for the Scripps Business events. They have two business events every year and they wanted to provide a custom Scripps APP for their attendees so they could find all the speakers, meet new people and read about the different topics. So Dr. Steve asked me if we could build it. I say YES, and we signed a contract, which was a very happy moment for me.

几个月后,史蒂夫博士给我发了一封电子邮件,要求让我一起参加一个线下商业活动去介绍我公司的主要业务。当然我准备十分充分。我还邀请了一些朋友一起加入到这次活动中来,我们一起做了非常精彩的PPT来展示我的公司和业务范畴。我们的PPT展示给史蒂夫博士和斯克里普斯团队留下了深刻的印象。接下来我们讨论了许多关于APP项目的商业理念。最后又过了一个月,史蒂夫博士想到一个主意说要求我们为Scripps 商业活动创建一个Iphone和Android的APP。因为他们每年都有两次这样的商业交流活动,他们希望给参会者提供这样自定义的Scripps APP,以方便他们能够查阅会上所有发言人,结识新朋友或者能阅读不同的演讲主题内容。所以Steve博士问我是否可以创建这个平台,我毫无疑问的回答:当然可以。后来我们签了一份合同,这对我来说是最幸福的时刻。​

​My budget was only $10,000 US Dollars and I needed to hire software engineers to build APP. I didn’t have the money to hire professionals so I hired 3 students from local university. We spent six months building the APP. We worked very closely with Dr. Steve and his staff to make sure they were happy with all the features of the APP.

当时我的预算只有10,000美元,如果我要聘请软件工程师来创建这个APP的话。这个预算完全不足以去聘请专业人士来完成这个项目,所以我聘请了当地大学的3名学生。最后我们花了六个月的时间来搭建这个APP。我们与Steve博士及其团队成员密切合作,确保他们对APP的所有功能都感到满意。

Finally the business event happened later in the year. Every attendee of the business event was given the APP to download on their phone. It was a great success. Everyone loved the APP and found it very useful. Dr. Steve and Scripps team was very happy and extended our contract for many more years. They were our first major customer! Even Dr. Steve wrote a nice reference for me and we post on our website.

最后,这个商业活动项目在年末起效果了。参加活动的每个参会者都可以通过
手机下载这个APP。这是一个巨大的成功。每个人都喜欢这个APP,发现它非常适用。史蒂夫和斯克里普斯博士团队也非常的高兴,并将我们的合同期延长了几年。他们是我们的第一个大客户!史蒂夫博士甚至为我写了一份精彩的推荐信并发布到网上去。
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The original team 创始团队
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Testimonial From Dr. Steinhubl Of Scripps Research
来自Scripps研究中心Steinhubl博士的推荐
After the success with Scripps, I decided to make a more general APP for all business events in science, not just for Scripps. So we used same technology and my team built a new APP called Oconnect. It was for promoting all science business events. We signed 10 new business events in our APP and each paid us $2,000 to use our APP!
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在Scripps取得成功后,我决定为所有科技商业活动论坛创建一个更通用的APP,而不仅仅是为Scripps服务也可以为其他公司服务。我们使用相同的技术,又创建了一个新的APP叫做Oconnect。这是为了所有科学商业活动而建的。我们在APP上立刻签了10个活动商,而且每个活动商付2000美金就可以使用我们的APP!
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Original Design Mockups & Architecture Diagrams
原创设计样机和架构图
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Original Design Mockups & Architecture Diagrams
原创设计样机和架构图
Later, we were accepted into an Accelerator program in San Diego, and spent one more year working with very experience business professionals that help us with the strategy to make our company ready for private investment. It was a very good learning experience to work with senior professionals to improve my company. Finally we were ready to approach investors with a lot of money to fund our company and grow it. At the time, I was not ready to take the next big step, but the entire experience was a great learning experience for me. And my most important lesson was that my freelance effort and networking to find Dr. Steve, led to the development of my own product and growth of my company.
后来,我们成功被圣地亚哥的加速器项目选中合作,花了一年时间和经验丰富的专业人士一起工作,他们帮助我们制定方案以备公司为募资做好准备。与高级专业人士合作来改善我的公司是一段非常好的学习经历。最后,我们已经准备好把项目给投资者来募资基金并壮大公司的发展规模。但是那时候,我还没有准备好迈出下一步,但整个经历对我来说是一次很棒的学习经历。于我而言最大的成功是,把自由职业和网络相结合的方式遇见了斯蒂夫博士,并促成了我自己的产品和公司的发展。
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Our Graduate Certificate For Completing Springboard
Springboard的结业证书
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The O’Interface design team in action
O’Interface设计团队在交流
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With Deepak Chopra and John Scully at the STSI conference
与Deepak Chopra和 John Scully一起参加STSI峰会

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Author

Raj Oswal via medium

From Silicon Valley To Shenzhen...2019

3/17/2019

 

AT OUR CORE, WE ALL WANT TO CONNECT.

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Why do you think we love having something to put on our LinkedIn, join many Facebook groups and constantly Snapchat. In a world filled with many silos, isolated careers and studio apartments — we are thirsty for connection.

The problem? It’s horribly difficult. People are insecure, don’t want to be seen, or don’t know how. We hide behind many walls afraid that if we’re seen we’ll be “found out.”
Garrett, the 65 year old homeless man volunteering at Walmart teaches a beautiful lesson on connection.I met Garrett outside a few days ago as he was helping put carts away. He wasn’t working for them, he just found joy in helping walmart succeed. He knew all the employees by name, is known to greet customers on their way in and helps wherever he can. He found his connection there.

I like to help them. They’ve always been nice to me. I can’t get a real job so I just help out where I can… — GarrettConnection is the strongest indication of happiness and without it we have no purpose. Connection is defined as to join, link, or fasten together; unite or bind. To connect 2 cities by a bridge.

Beautiful…connection is tying to complete worlds that would not have otherwise see the other by building a bridge.

Shawn Achor, researcher at Harvard University and author of The Happiness Advantage discovered something incredible about connection. After following thousands of people over 50 years, he identified only one thing truly makes people happy. The ONE thing that separates the happiest 10% from everyone else? Not $$, fame, or power. 

It’s the strength of our social relationships.

Challenge: How can you create more connections wherever you are?If you can’t think of anything here are some ideas.
  • In line at Starbucks
  • With your coworkers
  • Call a random number on your phone
  • Spark a conversation with a homeless person
  • Leave cookies for your neighbor
  • At a park, walking your dog
— Erin McConlogue (#ghosting)
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Vlog :  From Silicon Valley To Shenzhen

3/16/2019

 
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3/1/2019

 
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d.  The solution
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