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  1. Rincewind

    About needs

    Some weeks ago I was on vacation with my family in danmark. We had a little house near the beach. Beach, Water and summer are a perfect combination for a vacation with a 2,5 year old boy. We digged a lot in the dirt. We had a house far away from any internet access. So I was really surprised to...
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    Is my college degree worth it?

    In that case I would drop out, too. But I definitely needed my studying years to become the problem solver that I now am. And then you still need to learn how to spot these problems...
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    Is my college degree worth it?

    This could be possible, but it's a very hard and risky way. (Don't take moronic risks?) Depending on the industry, many people wont take you serious without a degree. Finishing any kind of degree proves at least that you have the persistence to do so. So becoming the much better specialist...
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    Sold first company-- now stuck in action paralysis

    MINDSET 
    I've been in exactly the same position about one year ago. I worked on that company three years and then sold it for little money. In my case the company wasn't growing and I didn't see the potential, so despite my success of building and selling a company I felt like a failure. I took some...
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    Is my college degree worth it?

    I don't know any youtube stars or entertainers personally. But half of my friends and almost all of my former colleagues are software developers. None of them worries about job security or money. Some of them are using their comfortable situation to get into the fastlane. It's a very good...
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    Lots of Ideas!What to do?

    IDEA 
    Most of us have. Once you commit to a project, it stops. See your idea hopping as a kind of procrastination. Nicholas Taleb wrote something very interesting about procrastination in the book "Antifragile". He says that procrastination is a way your subconsciousness tells you that you are not...
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    Is my college degree worth it?

    To be 'youtube entertainer' sounds like kids who have no idea what they want to achieve in life and try to avoid working. How old are you? Don't see the college as the end of the road. It's a beginning. You will learn a lot about persistence and yourself.
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    Sales as a Road to Big Bucks

    EXECUTION 
    I'm reading "the psychology of sales" by Brian Tracy at the moment. There are some parts about phone selling in there.
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    Yes, and then the engineer in me starts telling me all the stuff: But that's only your point of view. Are you sure you're not alone with that? You didn't read 20 books about that. How can you be sure? You don't have a degree. How would anyone believe you? ... And then I start believing that I...
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    Thank you for the links! I read many of the topics already, but I think I will read them again with a different mindset. It's good to hear that your are exactly on the way I want to go, just some steps farther. :)
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    Thank you for that great insight! I've heart that sentence so often now, but this is the first time I think I understood it... The other point you mentioned, that they see every interaction as marketing is another good one. I will keep that in mind when I start building the next thing.
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    That's true, I don't want to fake something. But I know that I can talk about my products the one way or the other. One way (asking questions, solving problems, addressing pain points, ...) will make people buy my products (when they need them). The other way (talking about me, my technology, my...
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    I just read the book "ready, fire, aim", that convinced me to learn more about sales/marketing. Surely I will get professionals to help me with selling, but I realize that I don't know enough to tell how good they are. I can build software products myself, but I can also outsource it and be...
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    Thank you for the list! I will post it here for the others who might be interested: - Made To Stick by Cheap & Dan Heath - Scientific Advertising by Claude Hopkins - Built To Sell by John Warrillow - Zero To One by Peter Thiel & Blake Masters I already read "made to stick" and "Zero to One"...
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    I believe there is much truth in that. But to create great content I would need to become what? A great copywriter? A good speaker? In the end there are again these "marketing" skills you need for your users/readers/clients to find out about you. Slack is a good example. There are many other...
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    I will have a look, there are two classes this year in Berlin. Do you recommend a specific class? On the website are different ones. I read the page for the "professional selling" class.
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    How do I become the sales person I need to be?

    I am a software developer. This is how I thought about myself for many years. I studied IT, made a diploma and a MSC. I worked for companies and wrote software for them. Then I started freelancing six years ago. I get very good hourly rates for my freelancing, but basically I changed the form...
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    How to find the words, your target market uses?

    Cool, I will try that. Thank you!
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    How to find the words, your target market uses?

    I'm a software developer and currently working as a consultant/freelancer. Last year I sold my first SaaS company, but it wasn't a big success (despite the learning). My company solved a problem (decision making), but we didn't get the market research right in the first place, so we didn't solve...
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    How did you select your business idea?

    IDEA MINDSET 
    That's a great story, thank you! I did a similar validation last year, but my idea wasn't feasible due to German tax laws. I wanted to build a platform for entrepreneurs to exchange their services with each other. While I got an email list of 200 interested people within one week, my lawyer...

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