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You can’t strategize your way past the hard stuff - on getting that first sale
- keeptrying 15y agoI'm learning this now. You might have a great strategy to get between 2 points but if you dint actually walk, the strategy is useless.
- SonicSoul 15y agoJust like you can't learn how to surf by just reading books. But reading about it, and getting a coach/mentor (someone who has done it for years) can help you get there a lot faster.
- wafos 15y agoThis reminds me a lot of Steve Blanks Peter Pan syndrome he writes about here: http://steveblank.com/2010/09/20/the-peter-pan-syndrome-%E2%80%93-the-startup-to-company-transition/ http://steveblank.com/2010/09/20/the-peter-pan-syndrome-%E2%... Basically, a lot of us just don’t know what we don’t know when we’re first starting out. We’ve got to get out and learn our space, become domain experts, and fail a ton. Unfortunately, there isn’t any shortcut in sales. If you find one let me know.
- heelhook 15y ago"It’s 10%. You want a dollar, you ask ten people. You want ten dollars, you ask a hundred people. 10%" Given the ten people are mostly independent events (unless they perceive the previous responses), this would fall under the Montecarlo fallacy.