AndrewHart

In Sam Altman's recent blog post, "How To Be Successful", he talks about "Getting good at sales":

Self-belief alone is not sufficient—you also have to be able to convince other people of what you believe.

All great careers, to some degree, become sales jobs. You have to evangelize your plans to customers, prospective employees, the press, investors, etc...

http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-be-successful

Other parts of the post resonated with me, and this one does too, as something I want to work towards as I build my company.

Looking online, all advice on "sales" is centered around actual sales scenarios, rather than what Sam is referring to. I was wondering if anyone came across any books etc. or had good advice on where to start with "getting good at sales".

Over the past year I've had a lot of success with my work in AR: I pioneered location-based AR with an open-source library, which became the most-starred ARKit project on GitHub, and along the way created some of the more notable AR demos, including AR navigation and Bookstore AR. More recently, I've been working on integrating AR into indoor environments, and my recent Retail AR demo went viral, even being featured on Mashable.

My skills are in R&Ding solutions to the technical and user experience challenges involved with AR, and being able to create compelling experiences from that.

CV is a key part of AR, especially when it comes to integrating with real-world environments, such as when recognising products in a store. I've spent a while learning CV, but it's clear that it's not an area where I'm effective, and I feel my time is wasted there. It'd be better for me to partner with someone who does CV really well.

I'm based in London, but open to working with anyone located anywhere in the world. If you're interested in working together, please drop me a message - Andrew@DentReality.com

ARKit+CoreLocation library:

https://github.com/ProjectDent/ARKit-CoreLocation

AR navigation demo:

https://twitter.com/AndrewProjDent/status/888380207962443777

Bookstore AR demo:

https://twitter.com/AndrewProjDent/status/958759429473734657

Retail AR demo:

https://twitter.com/AndrewProjDent/status/981635577488519170

Mashable coverage of Retail AR:

https://mashable.com/2018/04/05/artificial-reality-retail-shopping-tool/