…is sales. Most startups are done by technical founders and even if they get some VC/Angel funding they may not be getting the help they need to properly sell their products/services. I started looking around to see what the valley is doing for this and I found Upshift Partners (more details on why they are needed here).

I had an interview with them but they want their team in San Francisco for the next 12 months so nothing happened (at least not yet!). I found nothing like this in...

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My goal was to never truly apply for a role. I wanted to find a cool company that needed/wanted me and just make it happen. To do that I had to really understand myself and what I wanted so I first worked with a career advisor to figure out:

• what I'm good at - evangelism, sales, coaching
• what kind of companies I like - small, startup, agile, fun
• what industries I'm passionate about - green, health & wellness, education

Next I went through a huge list of local companies to...

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After spending a long time figuring things out and a short time being frustrated, I have started my journey into something new.

It began a year ago when I realized I was not happy at work. I quickly jumped back into the Vancouver start-up scene; however, as I did not really know who I was (or why I was unhappy), my efforts were not very focussed and unsurprisingly not successful.

In the fall I began working with a mentor to figure out a) why I was unhappy and b) what would make me happy...

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I bring:

• passion for wanting to make people better
• enthusiasm and humour
• selling snow to eskimos
• merging of technical knowledge + understanding how to present value
• lots of communication and collaboration (I prefer to work with consensus)
• willingness to jump in where needed to Get Things Done.

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