{"id":10127,"date":"2017-04-21T12:32:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=10127"},"modified":"2017-04-21T21:51:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T01:51:47","slug":"christine-herron-and-me-implore-you-to-develop-sales-skills-as-a-female-engineer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/christine-herron-and-me-implore-you-to-develop-sales-skills-as-a-female-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Herron and Me Implore You to Develop Sales Skills (as a Female Engineer)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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No one else is tweeting, blogging or podcasting the super unpopular topic: “learn and do selling and sales as a female engineer”<\/div>\n
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The problem:<\/div>\n
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<\/td>\nChristine Herron (@christine<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3\/2\/17, 10:31 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
The most underdeveloped, undervalued startup skill: #Sales<\/a> twitter.com\/500Startups\/st\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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Expanding the problem… I can completely understand why doing sales would be extraneous to an engineering degree. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Expanding the problem…<\/div>\n
I realize I am blogging about a female problem– specifically, a female engineering problem… But it’s a SIGNIFICANT problem. <\/div>\n
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Expanding the problem…<\/div>\n
The female VC, number of GPs issue, is an issue because of the number of female engineers who do business development is low. <\/div>\n
\nThe teaser: <\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nBlair Shane (@bshane<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2\/2\/17, 6:21 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
“Learn, have no regrets, and pay it forward” from @jesskah<\/a> and @roelofbotha<\/a> shared with talented female engineers. pic.twitter.com\/RDHHtKpSzw<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nThe nitty gritty: <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3\/16\/17, 10:32 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Polyvore. Jesskah is a Stanford CS who did a lot of sales, promotion and distribution work
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I took 3 #cs183<\/a> classes offered by @StanfordEng<\/a> classes. There was a gap in doing distribution,<\/i> so I forked out the sales, promotion, distribution and sales skills = #cs183s<\/a>‘. I realize #Engr145 @StanfordEng<\/a> dedicates nearly half its lectures to distribution…, But distribution is such a monumental flustercluck of a task that there needs to be a course that dedicates 80% of lectures towards DISTRIBUTION <\/span><\/div>\n
THATS #cs183s<\/a>‘ (all 20 are free online)<\/span><\/div>\n
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<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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3\/4\/17, 10:44 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
If you’re an engineer taking an entrepreneurship class, getting $500.oo in sales sets the bell curve bit.ly\/buster14512v<\/a>
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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eudADPfTWiE&sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVKHwYJzVVc&sns=em<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
Sage Executive group. Gerry Rollins. <\/span><\/div>\n

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By Larry Chiang No one else is tweeting, blogging or podcasting the super unpopular topic: “learn and do selling and sales as a female engineer” The problem: Christine Herron (@christine) 3\/2\/17, 10:31 AM The most underdeveloped, undervalued startup skill: #Sales twitter.com\/500Startups\/st\u2026 Expanding the problem… I can completely understand why doing sales would be extraneous to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sales-distribution-selling-promotion-skills-stanford-engineering","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}