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:
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Christine Herron (@christine) |
The most underdeveloped, undervalued startup skill: #Sales twitter.com/500Startups/st…
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Expanding the problem… I can completely understand why doing sales would be extraneous to an engineering degree.
Expanding the problem…
I realize I am blogging about a female problem– specifically, a female engineering problem… But it’s a SIGNIFICANT problem.
Expanding the problem…
The female VC, number of GPs issue, is an issue because of the number of female engineers who do business development is low.
The teaser:
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Blair Shane (@bshane) |
“Learn, have no regrets, and pay it forward” from @jesskah and @roelofbotha shared with talented female engineers. pic.twitter.com/RDHHtKpSzw
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The nitty gritty:
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
Polyvore. Jesskah is a Stanford CS who did a lot of sales, promotion and distribution work
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Photo credit: Blair Shane
I took 3 #cs183 classes offered by @StanfordEng classes. There was a gap in doing distribution, so I forked out the sales, promotion, distribution and sales skills = #cs183s‘. I realize #Engr145 @StanfordEng 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
THATS #cs183s‘ (all 20 are free online)
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Larry Chiang (@LarryChiang) |
If you’re an engineer taking an entrepreneurship class, getting $500.oo in sales sets the bell curve bit.ly/buster14512v
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Sage Executive group. Gerry Rollins.