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How to Assess Entry-Level Product Manger Positions

Tom Spencer

Associate Product Manager (APM) positions are well known in Silicon Valley as rotational, mentorship-focused programs designed to accelerate the careers of young aspiring product managers. These alumni have gone on to become VCs, founders, and product leaders, in addition to starting APM programs at companies like Salesforce.

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4 Self-Improvement Myths That May Be Holding You Back

Harvard Business

Add in speeches, training programs, TV programs, online-products, coaches, yoga, and the like, self-help is a $10 billion industry per year , and that’s just in the U.S. Myth 2: We get better by benchmarking ourselves against others. Why New Personal Productivity Efforts Don’t Stick. You and Your Team Series.

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A Guide to Solving Social Problems with Machine Learning

Harvard Business

But so is the trepidation: as with all new “products,” there is potential for misuse. We trained our algorithms to predict the overall crime rate for the defendents eligible for bail. Caution is merited: the underlying data used to train an algorithm may be biased, reflecting a history of discrimination.

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