By Larry Chiang
Founders, I’m honored and humbled Re #1 in entrepreneurship education at SXSW.
I love witnessing the first couple steps we take. I write daily as a cathartic practice. Writing my ‘morning pages’ is something I got mentored from the book, the “Artists Way”. Mostly I jot down founder’s notes in this blog on WordPress. It’s my friend Matt’s content platform.
As engineering co-founders-to-be, do what I did Re sell.
Do what Paul Graham and Mark Cuban recommend you to do. Sell
Paul Graham said a lot about promotion. I’m quoting an entire passage by spitting out a “bit.ly” https://bit.ly/pgrahamCh6 Mark Cuban reinforces sales as an ENGR 145 skill
Here I regurgitate another “bit.ly” https://bit.ly/mcuban710 In my office hours, I “get out of the building” and meet you in a swank hotel lobby while a tech conference is going on https://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/3-small-steps-to-build-your-sales-muscle-as-an-engineer/
Remember, when you and two other people both ace engineering and ace the three blog posts up above…, you are moving UP. And to the right. y-axis is Sales Ability x-axis is Tech Expertise An example of “up and to the right” is a team of CS majors that all code and all promote. Y axis is promotion and distribution. X-axis is what your major in engineering taught you. https://whattheydontteachyouatstanfordbusinessschool.wordpress.com/2014/07/03/on-the-y-axis-is-sales-ability-on-the-x-axis-is-tech-expertise/
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