By Larry Chiang
Marketing. It’s not a substitute for sales. It’s asinine to skip practicing sales before co-founding a startup.
#ENGR145s is about practicing sales.
Engineering 145s is about doing technical sales as undergrad.
Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) | |
This is a great Jessica Livingston article @asse9 Re sales
Have you read @foundersatwork? its a real world book #ENGR145s (#cs183s =mythical |
Sales is a strange topic because VCs all realize that sales skills are important. But VCs are very slow to advocate doing sales.
This article is as close of sales skill promotion to CS majors and developers:
Asse9 Austin Secret (@asse9) | |
Should you hire a marketing person!? #CSmajorCRO wsj.com/articles/BL-23…
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Sales helps you set the bell curve.