By Larry Chiang
Sales. It’s what for dinner at Evvia.
Sales is the mythical skill every VC knows is important. But they don’t know how to teach. VCs also don’t know why founders can’t execute sales.
Before ENGR 145’s “Technology Entrepreneurship’s” tutelage via the hashtag #ENGR145, YouTube videos at ENGR 145 and wordpress blog posts, it was blind VCs leading the smart-dumb founders who outsourced company building to an external vp of sales (Steve Blank spoiled the plot: vp of sales get founders fired.
Here are five posts where Professor Blank shows why founders get fired
– Steve Blank “death” https://bit.ly/sblank710
– Steve Blank “customer dev” https://bit.ly/sblank711
– Steve Blank “problems” https://bit.ly/sblank712
– Steve Blank “Death Spiral” https://bit.ly/sblank713
CS 183s solves founders getting fired.
CS183s fills in for Steve Blank’s ‘Part IV’ [Professor Blank still has not written Part 4]
CS183s fills in for Steve Blank’s ‘Part IV’ [Professor Blank still has not written Part 4]
EXTRA credit:
FUN EXERCISE: Sales. It’s what they do teach engineers at Stanford (and UT too. By executing sales of AirBnb to VCs at exorbitantly high sxsw prices 🙂
FUN EX: Practice launching someone elses startup.
Tooz San Francisco Launch Party!
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
W San Francisco
181 3rd Street, Upstairs Drink Boutique, San Francisco, CA 94103
https://www.eventbrite.com/event/16230835867?ref=eiosprexshremail
Learn to launch other people’s shitake
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
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“Tooz San Francisco Launch Party!” implies there’s a LA & #Austin one too! eventbrite.com/event/16230835…
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ENGR145’s two anchor videos move you to the right on the entrepreneur bell curve
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Forbes: why you shouldn’t launch at SXSW featuring @chrisheuer and @LarryChiang forbes.com/sites/ewanspen…
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