{"id":6563,"date":"2015-12-06T22:12:15","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T02:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=6563"},"modified":"2015-12-07T14:13:57","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T18:13:57","slug":"being-upset-academically-frustrated-or-injured-as-a-student-athlete-leads-you-to-start-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/being-upset-academically-frustrated-or-injured-as-a-student-athlete-leads-you-to-start-selling\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Upset, Academically Frustrated or Injured as a Student Athlete Leads You to Start Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
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Sales. It hurts.<\/div>\n
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Selling hurts your ego because you hear no. If you’re in sales, you hear a lot of No’s. If you’re an engineer, you got in your major so that you’d never have to hear a “no”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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12\/4\/15, 9:05 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Insight de la sales: I got a B in college and went ballisticly upset. Set new goal= Graduate #1 highest starting salary out of engineerin…<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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What kind of engineer sells!?! One that wants to…<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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12\/4\/15, 9:04 AM<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
Yup, I compared\u00a0#LisaFalzone<\/a>\u00a0to the\u00a0#WrightBros<\/a>\u00a0because I’m hilarious, irreverent and genius :-))<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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…And Cameron from StartX had a back hip. He wrestled for an NCAA school in my city’s college called Stanford<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


\nby ‘sales’, I mean working under the Chief Revenue Officer. Often, a startup has no sales so if you bring in sales, you’re the CS major CRO.
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Sales insight for Engineers END<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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