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Stock Cropper Stream-of-Consciousness

Should I partner with Zach?

Is Zach the right person to partner with?

What is the vision, in terms of:

Finances, stake, shares, etc.?

Geography

Timeline / time-to-market

Is this even the right path to go down?

What are the facts?

  • Went to ACRES Field day
  • Met with the Stock Cropper guy
  • He's been in a bind, his manufacturing partner backed out, so he's looking for engineering support. He's not an engineer.
  • 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
  • But his engineering partner has taken him for a ride, frankly.
  • He and I talked and we see the same sort of thing: need to scale back the tech, lean it up
  • 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
  • I think he gives a steadier hand and brings some branding/sales/networking to the table that I would desperately need
  • I bring the ability to technically drive the product to be what it needs to be
  • Still need to find manufacturing partners, but it's going to be leaner if the design is at least under the same roof
  • We will be calling and revisting sometime Friday.
  • 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.

In parallel

  • On Saturday and Sunday I woke up with this nagging thought that the engineering is getting in the way of me farming.

  • Monday that wasn't there, I was just up and got going

  • Tuesday I awoke with a weird thought that I actually can't recall. It was something to do with perfectionism or something.

  • Sunday, talked with Jonathan about it. Got some good things to think about as to what questions I should be asking.

  • I also mentioned the sensation on Sat/Sun.

  • 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.

So what am I pondering?

  1. What path do I need to take?

To answer this -

  1. Where do I focus my energies and limited time?
  2. What questions do I need to be asking?
  3. What am I not seeing?

Questions to ask Zach

  • Financial
    • Is there buy-in?
    • Is there room to be paid?
    • Have you worked out price points?
    • Right now all you have is a waitlist... no deposits or any actual $$$ ?
  • Timeline
    • Is this full time?
    • Do I need to move?
  • Ethos
    • FOSH?
    • Are you Christian? What is your core north star?
    • How are you vetting investors, how much say do they have?
  • Skillset / bring to the table?
    • It sounds like you have sales experience...

Jordan

"It has very little to do with my abilities or what I accomplish... it has more to do with will and grace" "The acts that I assent to are actually God's acts..."