3 Career Lessons the Most Successful People Can't Teach You

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3 Career Lessons the Most Successful People Can't
Teach You

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• Vacancies.ae

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Lesson 1 Perfect Your Pitch

• In the first episode, theres a squirm-worthy
  pitch meeting between Alex Blumberg, the CEO, and
  Chris Sacca, a Silicon Valley billionaire. Its
  uncomfortable because Blumberg has no clue how to
  pitch He stutters, uses jargon, rambles, and
  basically makes investing in his company sound
  really unattractive.
• If youre an entrepreneur, you should definitely
  know how to sell your idea to investors. However,
  the rest of us need to master pitching, too.
  Were always selling something, whether thats
  our services, an idea, a product, or even
  ourselves (cough, job interview!).
• Not sure youre nailing your elevator speech?
  Check out 3 Smart Ways to Upgrade Your Elevator
  Pitch, The Secret to Giving the Perfect Pitch,
  and Secrets for Nailing the Pitch from 7 Female
  Founders.

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Lesson 2 Dont Cover Up Your Mistakes

• Episode nine was a little painful to listen to as
  well, because Blumbergs team really, really
  screwed up. Long story short, they
  unintentionally made a mom believe her son was
  going to be featured on This American Life (a
  famous radio segment from NPR), but really he was
  used in a Squarespace ad. The mom was mad, the
  media was mad, andI assumeSquarespace was mad.
• I wouldnt know any of this if Blumberg and his
  employees hadnt been completely open about what
  happened. Not only did they reach out to the mom,
  but they broadcast their mistake to the whole
  world via podcast. And guess what? That was the
  best thing they couldve done to get everyone to
  calm down and move on. Its hard to stay angry
  when the people youre angry at have acknowledged
  their mistake humbly and without qualifying it.

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Lesson 3 Dont Be Afraid to Open Up

• For 13 episodes, Blumberg has let his audience in
  on, well, just about everything. We hear his
  struggle to decide how much equity to give his
  partner. We hear his employees talk about how
  theyre at their breaking points. We even
  hear his plans to eventually take his company
  from purely content to content and technology.
• Youd think sharing so much info would harm
  Blumberg, but its had the opposite effect.
  During his last round of funding, he actually
  had too manywannabe investors. Prestigious
  organizations (like Google Ventures!) volunteer
  to help him so they can be on the podcast. Most
  importantly, Blumbergs decision to be
  transparent means he isnt focused on beating his
  competitionhes just focused on making a great
  product.

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