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Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by derefr on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @02:53PM (#6992483)
Wait, so, not having ever done sales, I'm not sure what you mean. What is in the set of "capital-S-Sales" that's not "salesmanship?"
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Re:Lessons learned from my failed startup after 2 years, 300... by byoung2 on Tuesday December 31, 2013 @04:53PM (#6993031)
I think he is saying that a CEO can have salesmanship skills like the ones listed in order to "sell" people on the idea of working for the company, but it doesn't mean that he is also able to pick up the phone and do cold calls to sell widgets.
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