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Product School Review: Everything you need to know before considering PM Bootcamps

PMLesson's Ace the PM Interview

Many prospective PMs consider business school, internships, side-projects, startup experience, or bootcamps. They are usually a great way to get condensed, accelerated learning for a fraction of the cost of a traditional degree or certificate. Bootcamps are a very popular learning model in the tech industry for several reasons.

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Executive Director’s Perspective on how to become a product manager

Product Management Unpacked

I have worked in 14 startups, founded four, and have held executive positions for better than two-thirds of my career. You can become a product manager by getting a certification or taking an online course, and these are fine ways to proceed in your quest for knowledge about product management.

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What is Product Management, exactly?

BrainMates

See Parity Consulting’s 2018 Product Management Salary Survey. ). The Head of Product or Product Director usually reports to the CPO in a larger organisation or to the CEO in a smaller startup or scaleup. Certifications. Specialisations within Product Management are also starting to emerge.

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The Difference: Prototype vs MVP

The Product Coalition

Eric Ries describes it perfectly in The Lean Startup. As of 2018, they have sold 1.5 Check out our certifications here. The meaning of MVP is Minimum Viable Product. It’s the bare minimum version of your product that still solves the problem for your customers. billion vouchers to almost 50 million annual active users.

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What’s next for marketplace startups? Reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, that’s what.

Andrew Chen

Is there still room for marketplace startups to innovate? Marketplace startups have done incredibly well over the first few decades of the internet, reinventing the way we shop for goods, but have been less successful services. What’s next: The future of Service Marketplaces (2018-?). We answer, emphatically, yes!

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Product Management History: The Nineties, The Noughties, and Beyond

The Product Coalition

2018: The number of global internet users surpassed half the population of the world. In 2011 about 2 billion people used the internet, which more than doubles to over 4 billion in 2018 What Does the Future Hold? Check out our certifications here. Are you interested in Product Management? Looking for a good read?

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A guide to hiring your first Product Manager for startups

BrainMates

In March 2018, Rich Mironov visited Australia and presented to the Product Talks Sydney Meetup Group on building and scaling Product teams. This blog is a transcript of part of that meetup, focusing on how to hire the first Product Manager at a startup. Certified Scrum Product Owner certificate? Here’s my stake in the ground.