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The Career Path Of A Product Designer

At some point in their lives, most people have thought about designing a product. Whether that be a passing thought, or something you’ve acted upon, it’s not an uncommon practice. However, this passion can be turned into a career that is highly sought after. In this article we explore the career path of a product designer. An overview of the job, salary and skillset can all be found below!

Switching Careers: My Experience

I'm now a fully fledged software engineer but this wasn't my first career. Here's my story and my top tips for switching careers!

Startup Investment Readiness

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Understanding password hashing and salting for enhanced security

The ultimate guide to password hashing for better security

Why it is important to educate your audience and how to do it

I often hear it from different people: “I don’t have money for content marketing”, “We already tried to run a blog, but it didn’t work”, “I’d rather buy more paid advertising for this money”. I think that it all depends on how exactly you do content marketing. I find the educational part of content marketing extremely important.

Roadmap in Product Management

Have you ever wondered what it takes to go from ideation to building a detailed roadmap that everyone is on-board with?

Davide Pollicino – Meet the Mentor

Experienced Product Manager and Software Engineer with experience in both startup and corporate environments. I am an incoming Microsoft Software Engineer.

Satish Balakrishnan – Meet the Mentor

An Author and a Cloud architect with multi-skill and multi-domain experience to elevate any application, computing infrastructure or operations to the cloud.

Taking a scientific approach to customer development

Being a great entrepreneur means knowing how to balance passion and objectivity when it comes to your venture. But how do you ensure your passion doesn't get in the way of making the right decisions for your business?

Linda Oranya – Meet the Mentor

I am a data scientist with experience in creating insights from data, making analyses, building predictive models. I love to impact while getting impacted on. I look forward to building a community of

Sunny Zhu – Meet the Mentor

9-yr analytical experience across industries, from advertising consulting, online gaming, fintech to eCommerce (luxury brands/ furniture). She is currently at a kids eCommerce marketplace and wants to

Mobile App Usability Checklist

I prepared this checklist after launching my first mobile app to organize information, use it in the following projects and share this knowledge with those who's preparing to launch their first mobile app.

10 Reasons Why You Need A Business Mentor

As an entrepreneur, you wear many hats and are responsible for a lot of different moving parts in the business. From product development to marketing to sales, it can be difficult to keep everything intact. A business mentor can help you stay on track and provide insightful guidance when you need it. If you think otherwise, you’re missing out.

Ian Quah – Meet the Mentor

I currently work at Duality Technologies where we work on encrypted ML through Homomorphic Encryption. My research interests are Deep RL, encrypted ML, and biologically plausible deep learning.

Yoav Farbey – Meet the Mentor

As a product leader with proven success across startups, scale ups and large corporations. With over 10+ years experience on B2B and B2C products as well as founding my own companies and exiting them.

Greg Zen – Meet the Mentor

Through mentoring startup founders, I found the area of service I am most passionate about and have sculpted my career, including products, toward empowering entrepreneurs as my life's work.

Alex Rohleder – Meet the Mentor

Hey 👋! I'm a Brazilian with 7+ years of experience helping junior developers and four years helping with software engineer selection!

May Chin – Meet the Mentor

May has historically held ownership and strategic decision making over the go-to-market plans of multimillion-user consumer products, apps and platforms across SEA. Almost 100% of her career has been

Best Practises For Making an IT Career Switch

Are you working a job you don’t like, when you could be in a rewarding, well-paid IT career that you love? You might incorrectly think an IT career switch is out of your reach, and yet many people just like you have managed to achieve it.

If you build it, they won't necessarily come

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Pivoting from crisis management to long term flexible working

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Science and kindness can radically change how we give feedback

We must move towards a more humble approach to feedback if we are to attract, keep, and upscale the best people.

Careers in Marketing w/ Gus Veiga

Once again, marketing remains one of the most popular fields of study in the US. The growth of marketing positions in the industry is pretty stable. And while the growth of the position isn’t exactly extraordinary, graduates from marketing degrees are among the ones with the lowest unemployment in their fields.

Your 101 guide to product management frameworks

For cooks, we invented kitchenware and for product managers, product management frameworks. Imagine trying to make your favorite dish without the proper ingredients. That’s what product development frameworks are for businesses.

Setup code standards since day 0

How to kick-off a successful projects by defining project quality standards.

Andrew Nester – Meet the Mentor

I’m Andrew, Senior Software Engineer in Amazon Web Services (AWS). I have more than 10 years of experience building complex large-scale distributed web applications.

B2B SaaS Sales: 22 powerful tips to win more SaaS deals

Learn about value-based selling, cold calling, objection handling, hiring your first sales reps, sales discovery phase, finding real pain points, and much more about B2B SaaS Sales strategies.

Product Life Cycle & Product Development Cycle

In this article I will take a look at a few lessons I have learnt, including: The importance of team inclusion! (developers, designers & operations teams), the differences between B2B & B2C products, continuous product discovery & agile software development, the benefits of releasing products or new features in several small iterations, ways to drive innovation using methods such as Design Sprints.

Valuation & Financing Strategy

Different financing strategies call for different valuations. Do does your growth plans.

Acing Amazon's writing exercise

An unprecedented shift in the global workforce has caused many to rethink their career aims. Remote work has gained traction the world over, with the traditional office model falling by the wayside.