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66 lines
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# Stock Cropper Stream-of-Consciousness
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## Should I partner with Zach?
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## Is Zach the right person to partner with?
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## What is the vision, in terms of:
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### Finances, stake, shares, etc.?
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### Geography
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### Timeline / time-to-market
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## Is this even the right path to go down?
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# What are the facts?
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- Went to ACRES Field day
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- Met with the Stock Cropper guy
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- He's been in a bind, his manufacturing partner backed out, so he's looking for engineering support. He's not an engineer.
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- I've seen his idea and it really does look interesting, it allows for pasturing at a small scale and leveraging edge-effect on corn
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- But his engineering partner has taken him for a ride, frankly.
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- He and I talked and we see the same sort of thing: need to scale back the tech, lean it up
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- We aren't eye-to-eye on how much of a "finished polished bulletproof product" that needs to be offerred but there is room to align this
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- I think he gives a steadier hand and brings some branding/sales/networking to the table that I would desperately need
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- I bring the ability to technically drive the product to be what it needs to be
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- Still need to find manufacturing partners, but it's going to be leaner if the design is at least under the same roof
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- We will be calling and revisting sometime Friday.
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- Jason Mauck, host of the field day, wanted to call and catch up with something. I don't know what this is in regards to exactly, but he might be trying to get a company going to build equipment for his relay cropping.
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In parallel
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- On Saturday and Sunday I woke up with this nagging thought that the engineering is getting in the way of me farming.
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- Monday that wasn't there, I was just up and got going
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- Tuesday I awoke with a weird thought that I actually can't recall. It was something to do with perfectionism or something.
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- Sunday, talked with Jonathan about it. Got some good things to think about as to what questions I should be asking.
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- I also mentioned the sensation on Sat/Sun.
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- Independently he brought up religious life. Mentioned that I have thought about it. And I was going to visit a few monasteries this summer in KS/OK. Mentioned my reservations - mostly that there's just this disconnect from work.
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# So what am I pondering?
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0. What path do I need to take?
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To answer this -
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1. Where do I focus my energies and limited time?
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2. What questions do I need to be asking?
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3. What am I not seeing?
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# Questions to ask Zach
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- Financial
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- Is there buy-in?
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- Is there room to be paid?
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- Have you worked out price points?
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- Right now all you have is a waitlist... no deposits or any actual $$$ ?
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- Timeline
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- Is this full time?
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- Do I need to move?
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- Ethos
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- FOSH?
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- Are you Christian? What is your core north star?
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- How are you vetting investors, how much say do they have?
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- Skillset / bring to the table?
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- It sounds like you have sales experience...
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# Jordan
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"It has very little to do with my abilities or what I accomplish... it has more to do with will and grace"
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"The acts that I assent to are actually God's acts..."
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