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How We Can Build a More Inclusive Future in Tech

Highspot

Before moving into tech, I was working as a mechanical engineer developing medical devices — but I found myself gravitating more and more towards computer science. That was really appealing to me because I had been working on products that took over a year to launch, from beginning to end.

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What Do Reductionism And Machine Design Have To Do With Selling And Buying?

Partners in Excellence

We break these down even further, inside sales, field sales, channels, sales operations, marketing programs, demand generation, marketing communications…… Our customers do the same thing, engineering, design, manufacturing, quality, procurement, finance. Each unit has goals, objectives, priorities, metrics.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit.

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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

More initiatives are launched, increasing the level of activity. Clausewitz (Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general) believed that friction was as inherent to war as it is to mechanical engineering and could therefore never be eliminated but only mitigated. The psychological effect is increased confusion.