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Convergent Technologies: War Story 1 – Selling with Sports Scores.

Steve Blank

He even remembered the names of their wives and kids and some details about schools or events. (I The Consultative Sale Our sales guy then quietly asked if there was any way we could help them. I couldn’t believe it, here we were wasting precious time and the dumb sales guy is talking about other stuff.) Help them?!!

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

You become so steeped in tools and techniques that have absolutely no relevance outside of.NET that you are actually less valuable to a startup than had you just taken a long nap. Two things: If you ever want to work in a startup, avoid.NET. But what they do is very, very rarely startups. It does you no favors.

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