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Ask Teresa: How Do You Get Your First Product Job Without Experience?

Product Talk

You don’t have to have engineering skills. Back in 2003, I was playing Dungeons & Dragons and created online spell cards. Around 2003 or so, I was playing tabletop Dungeons & Dragons with friends. But the positive side of that is that we’re living in a time period where anybody can get product experience.

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Jason VandeBoom: Bootstrapping to a $100 Million Round

Business of Software Conference

Founded in 2003, ActiveCampaign accelerates every company’s growth with a marketing automation platform designed to deliver great customer experiences. Jason VandeBoom is the founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign, founded in 2003. He’s a self-taught software engineer and technologist. ActiveCampaign’s Growth.

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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

This fascinating essay by Machine Learning Engineer Cathal Horan draws on the work of theoretical physicist Geoffrey West, network economics expert Geoffrey Parker and renowned urbanist Jane Jacobs to make the case that the growth of cities has a lot to teach us about how to develop a platform. Jeetu Patel, Box.

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The Shape Up Method: What Product Managers Need to Know

The Product Coalition

The engineering team feels that they are not spending their time efficiently because of working on multiple projects at once. Basecamp started off in 2003 as a tool that the internal development team built for themselves. This includes the product manager, designers, and the engineering team.

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Key Advice and Strategies for Mobile Product Managers

Alchemer Mobile

The product management profession requires varying degrees of technical skill, but it’s not one-size-fits-all and certainly does not require an engineering-based degree. likely starting as an engineer and moving into mobile product management). You don’t need a technical degree to be a strong PM. Go beyond NPS as a core KPI.

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5 Skills Every Product Manager Can Learn From Elon Musk

Sachin Rekhi

Larry Page, a close friend of Elon's, said more people should have the kind of inter-disciplinary skills that Elon possessed: a broad engineering and scientific background, MBA training, knowledge of how to run things, organize stuff, and raise money. Even within engineering, Elon distinguished himself with a very broad set of skills.

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Developing Product Management Confidence

bpma ProductHub

Such a trait is crucial to Product Management roles if you want sales, marketing and engineering to trust and follow your direction. She summarized her frameworks through her first book, “Software Product Management Essentials”, first out in 2003. Up Your Game,” she walks through real-life examples and tips to think more confidently.