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“Why I’m So Interested In Selling,” G. Page Singletary

Partners in Excellence

Dave is also a rare combination of a left-brain analytical thinker (see Cal Berkeley degree in mechanical engineering and applied physics) and the right-brain soft skills that are important for high-performing salespeople. I wanted to be like Poppy, who always had fun and could control his schedule. That is where I learned my craft.

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Doubling Down: Mark Roberge, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Stage 2 Capital

SaaStr

Between the initial COVID economic shutdown to the tech V-shape recovery to the rise and fall of the public and private valuation landscape with inflation and interest rates to now the advent of a massive technology breakthrough with AI, these are crazy, fast-moving, and exciting times. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University.

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Episode 35: Why Education and Training Are Key to Growing Manufacturing in the US

Spiro Technologies

Mike Nager: Yes, I went to school for an engineering degree. As a result, I’m an electrical engineer by degree. I was typically in a customer-facing position, such as applications engineering, sales, or product marketing. Adam Honig: Is this type of program primarily offered to engineering schools?

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Will AI Eliminate Sales – or Save It?

Miller Heiman Group

The four founders of Spyce were mechanical engineering students at MIT when they set out to solve a problem: there were too few options for fast, healthy, inexpensive meals. However, if we take a closer look at current trends, we can form a clearer picture of where technology is heading.

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Will AI Eliminate Sales – or Save It?

Miller Heiman Group

The four founders of Spyce were mechanical engineering students at MIT when they set out to solve a problem: there were too few options for fast, healthy, inexpensive meals. However, if we take a closer look at current trends, we can form a clearer picture of where technology is heading.

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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.” I was more of an engineer, MBA. Dell was selling configural PCs online.

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The Art of Action by Stephen Bungay

The Lost Book of Sales

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. Friction provided opportunities and could be used by a general just as much as it could be used by an engineer.