What Every Entrepreneur Needs to Learn About Selling

Aaron Dinin, PhD
The Startup
Published in
6 min readJun 30, 2020

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“What you’ve just shown wasn’t a pitch that’s going to get you many customers,” she said. I was demoing my startup’s software to a VP at a Fortune 500 company. I was maybe 25 years old, and it was the first time I’d ever pitched such a big potential customer. Clearly it hadn’t gone well.

“It’s not?” I sheepishly responded, not sure how else to respond to such direct…

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Aaron Dinin, PhD
The Startup

I teach entrepreneurship at Duke. Software Engineer. PhD in English. I write about the mistakes entrepreneurs make since I’ve made plenty. More @ aarondinin.com