In Reply to: "I found it best to minimize their contact with customers and ABSOLUTELY FORBID any contact with investors.".. posted by Cut-Throat on May 7, 2017 at 08:06:20:
When he believes the engineer's promises.
Consumer product sales people are generally bad. I fully agree with Ivan on that fact. I was in high tech sales, marketing and management for years. I learned tow things: 1) You can't sell from an empty cart and 2) If you're going to sell something, pick a product that people want to buy.
A good sales person simply navigates a person to the correct product for whatever it is that they want to buy and has to be a knowledgeable and honest adviser. In high tech, my biggest problem was that we were always on the bleeding edge with new products. Engineers always gave us lists of features that would going to be in the product and delivery times that were optimistic. Inevitably, the delivery time doubled and the feature set was cut in half. Hence, if you trust the engineers, you may find yourself to be a liar down the way.
-Rod
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