{"id":7364,"date":"2016-04-09T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T04:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=7364"},"modified":"2016-04-09T00:28:21","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T04:28:21","slug":"it-is-asse9-to-skip-over-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/it-is-asse9-to-skip-over-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is Asse9 To Skip Over Sales"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
\n
By Larry Chiang<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
Marketing. It’s not a substitute for sales. It’s asinine to skip practicing sales before co-founding a startup. <\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
#ENGR145s<\/a> is about practicing sales. <\/span><\/div>\n
Engineering 145s is about doing technical sales as undergrad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nLarry Chiang (@LarryChiang<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
4\/27\/15, 9:51 AM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
This is a great Jessica Livingston article @asse9<\/a> Re sales
Have you read @foundersatwork<\/a>? its a real world book #ENGR145s<\/a> (#cs183s<\/a> =mythical<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


Sales is a strange topic because VCs all realize that sales skills are important. But VCs are very slow to advocate doing sales. <\/span><\/div>\n


<\/span><\/div>\n
This article is as close of sales skill promotion to CS majors and developers:<\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nAsse9 Austin Secret (@asse9<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n
4\/24\/15, 9:25 AM<\/a><\/div>\n
Should you hire a marketing person!? #CSmajorCRO<\/a> wsj.com\/articles\/BL-23\u2026<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Sales helps you set the bell curve. <\/div>\n

\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
\"image1.JPG\"
<\/span><\/div>\n
Sales helps you leverage gravity <\/span><\/div>\n
<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n
Cross. The. Chasm. From. The. Right. <\/span><\/div>\n

<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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) 4\/27\/15, 9:51 AM This is a great Jessica Livingston article @asse9 Re salesHave you read @foundersatwork? its a real world book #ENGR145s (#cs183s =mythical Sales […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364","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=7364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}