Friday, August 23, 2013

Enterprise Sales Tips for Hackers

Useful to know when you are starting out and trying to sell to enterprise



When my co-founder and I were starting out, we came from an engineering background and thought of sales as black magic. Divine the customer's deepest desires, howl a few bewitching incantations, and then—abracadabra—a contract would be conjured. Magic!

Two years of selling served as a painful exorcism. There's no magic to enterprise sales, but there's a hell of a lot of zoology. LTV, field sales, inside sales, CAC, prospects, leads, consumerization, channel sales, … the array of terms is bewildering and there's no textbook that explains how it all fits together.


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Steve Jobs The Lost Interview (Full Film) 2012

This is a great interview with Steve Jobs in 1995 just before he re-joined Apple.



Clearly he knows what he is talking about and the thought process is super lucid. In his first stint at Apple he was very good. After NeXT he became great.
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Business Analysis Using User Stories

This is a great summary with succinct elaboration of what User Stories are in Agile software development.




User Stories are a great addition to our repertoire of ways of expressing stakeholder requirements.

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