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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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“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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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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Sales Pipeline Radio, Episode 124: Q&A with Chandar Pattabhiram @chandarp

Heinz Marketing

You studied mechanical engineering in college. Just kind of curious as to hear how did you make the move from mechanical engineering into B2B marketing? And now they kind of have this concept of full staff engineer who can go up and down, get all aspects of it. Chandar P: That’s a good question.

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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. Each gap in alignment (described by Stephen in a diagram) raises specific issues and requires us to take different steps to close it.

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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. He reminded us of Max Redmond and he’s building an amazing 3D AR technology. But I did become a Steelers fan and aspire to be an entrepreneur like my father.

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