All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders

Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by tsenkov on Monday September 03, 2018 @05:29AM (#17901483)

I just watched the series and posted my notes here: https://tsenkov.net/2018/09/03/a16z-crash-course-on-sales

Thanks to a16z and Peter Levine for this course.

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by factsaresacred on Monday September 03, 2018 @07:01AM (#17901810)

And thank you for the notes!

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by tsenkov on Monday September 03, 2018 @08:19AM (#17902155)

You are welcome!

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by wungsten on Monday September 03, 2018 @10:27AM (#17902735)

Awesome work. I'll always take print over video.

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by tsenkov on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:49AM (#17903196)

No work on my part at all. TBH, I actually prefer video when I first consume the content (or audio, I am listening to a bunch of podcasts; or video, working just as well as audio), but I want to have something I can comeback to and quickly check when I try to remember specifics from the videos, without the need to go through the entire youtube playlist to find it. Recently, I started keeping notes on podcasts, but I haven't published any of those. Maybe I should.

<shameless-plug> In fact, I just recorded the 82nd episode of a daily vlog I've been keeping, while developing a new product (haven't published a single episode, yet). Closed beta starts in a few days. I think it's pretty interesting stuff (I meant to do this, ever since I discovered Alex Bloomberg's Startup podcast) and I honestly hope to win-over even folks who prefer print, like yourself. Of course, my main focus is on the product, but it will be absolutely amazing, if even a few people get inspired from the story surrounding its creation. </shameless-plug>

Cheers!

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by RobertRoberts on Monday September 03, 2018 @02:50PM (#17904249)

Usually I do to, but these videos are like 1-3 minutes, and there is vital information and explanations of what the graphics mean that would literally take as long to read yourself. :P

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by tsenkov on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @01:00AM (#17906761)

I agree, but I make notes not to speed up consumption of content - just search gets faster this way. Text search or even scrolling a few pages, is definitely faster than FF through 40-50m of content split into 16 episodes.

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by RobertRoberts on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @11:52AM (#17909879)

Oh sure, I agree it's useful for review, but not for initial learning. I read through your notes before I watched the videos because I thought I could really glean something from it, but it didn't help me at all (it was actually confusing) until I watched the videos...

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Re:All Things Sales: Mini-lessons for startup founders by tsenkov on Wednesday September 05, 2018 @07:47AM (#17917028)

Thanks for the feedback. Useful stuff.

Is there any chance I can get a contact of yours? (I am always in the middle of a project that can benefit from the constructive criticism of smart people, so I will be happy to stay in touch)

You can use the contacts in my profile if you don't want to post yours' here.

Cheers!

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