🕺Takeoff #9: Work opportunities for you, fund-raising playbook, hear from our learners and much more...
Welcome to Takeoff, our weekly community newsletter to turn your lazy Sunday into a blissful day. Sit back, relax, get your cup of ‘chai’ and enjoy ☕
This person always gets our heart. Don’t you agree? 🤔
As usual, we are super pumped for this edition.
I think we are good to go!
🤌 Portfolio of the week
“I believe in the power of iteration, taking it one step at a time”
This is the philosophy I live by and I implement this in the gym where you’ve to put in the reps every day and in design where you keep iterating until you get the best solution possible ~ Hamdan Rejees
Checkout Hamdan’s portfolio, a Product Designer in Dubai, UAE and a fellow learner at the Product Management Launchpad cohort by Naggappan Ramasamy.
📖 An interesting article for your tranquil Sunday afternoon
The new science of customer emotions
“When a company connects with customers’ emotions, the payoff is always huge”
Building customer relations is paramount to the long-term success of your business. In this article, you will learn how firms can identify and leverage particular motivators that help maximize their competitive advantage and growth.
📂 Job board
Ingram micro is looking for a Technical Product Manager
Disney + Hotstar is hiring a Product Designer
Meesho is looking for a Ad Sales Growth Manager
Atkins is looking for Full Stack Developer (GIS)
😫 Do you have the bandwidth to handle this?
*No pun intended*
⭐ What our learners have to say
How Product Management Launchpad cohort by Naggappan helped you in your career?
I successfully landed a job as a product manager at Jio and was able to perform day to day activities. However I was not able to understand how I can develop my product thinking skills. I hail from a non-PM background so I was facing many challenges while solving the conflicts.
By joining Product Management Launchpad cohort by Nagga, I developed my product thinking skills as the course structure is designed in a way that we can learn everything from ground zero and Nagga has always been there to complement the learning process. The assignments and projects helped me think outside the box and test my understanding of all the concepts.
The constant support and feedback from mentors, instructors, and peers helped me a lot to improve and develop my product thinking skills. The initiatives by the Airtribe team like learn in public, share your learnings, doubt solving sessions, quizzes, and other activities helped me keep myself motivated and active during the entire course.
How has community-based learning accelerated your learning graph?
Learning with the community exposed me to different thinking patterns and it also helped me understand other perspectives of the concepts in the core and community jamming sessions. The aspect of healthy competition motivated me to perform better each day.
That peer feedback initiative got me different perspectives and feedback through other community members’ assignments, and it helped me build product thinking that helps me articulate things in a better way.
🧐 Food for thought
Sometimes we feel like we are stuck in an endless of loop of information and tasks ➿
Designed by OB (prev/ Visual Learning)
💫 A recent discovery we found fascinating
This week, we stuck onto this thread by Holly Liu. She is an American businesswoman and venture capitalist and also the co-founder of the mobile gaming company, Kabam.
“Momentum is everything. You can feel it happen when it does”
In this thread, Holly shares a fundraising playbook for founders that can help them create that momentum in the world of fundraising.
🏢 Straight from the Airtribe HQ
Why did you decide to quit your conventional job and take this startup journey?
I wanted to be my own boss and work 24X7? Just kidding. I believe in taking asymmetric bets - if it’s successful, it will have a huge impact with great upside and if it doesn’t, it will have little to no downside. I think starting a company is more of an asymmetric bet than most people expect. There is an obvious upside if it’s successful and even if it fails, you’ll still learn a lot from the experience.
What do you think are the biggest characteristics of a founder? What has been your superpower?
Looking at the bigger picture and the kind of impact we are creating for individuals keeps me motivated to do what I do. It’s important to celebrate small wins and focus on the positives. On the team side, we are a small tight-knit team. So having clear and frequent communication with the team and aligning them on the larger vision helps a lot.
✨ Signing off with some wisdom
“Great organizations don’t see people as a commodity to be managed to help grow their money, they think of money as a commodity to be managed to help grow their people” - Simon Sinek
Alright folks. Thank you so much for reading this week’s edition 😄
Coming back soon next weekend with another banger!
Until then..
Au revoir! 👋