In this course, you will explore how product leadership changes as companies move from early stage to scaleup and mature stages. You will examine early stage product strategy, including prototyping, customer validation, MVP choices, credibility, and go-to-market strategy. You will then study the shifts required during scaleup, such as moving from people to process, relationships to brand, early product to scalable product, ownership to partnership, and opportunistic decisions to strategic expansion. The course also addresses technical debt, customer requests, product innovation in mature companies, build, buy, and partner decisions, product sunsetting, opportunity assessment, and partnerships across growth stages. Through reflective assignments, role plays, dialogue, knowledge checks, and a final exam, you will practice applying product leadership decisions to changing organizational conditions.

Leading Products Through Growth and Scale
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Leading Products Through Growth and Scale
This course is part of From Product Strategy to Product Leadership Specialization



Instructors: Laura Marino
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What you'll learn
Lead product decisions across startup, scaleup, and mature company stages.
Evaluate expansion, technical debt, product innovation, and sunsetting choices.
Analyze build, buy, and partner options, including give-get considerations.
Skills you'll gain
- Product Management
- Growth Strategies
- Product Lifecycle Management
- Scalability
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Negotiation
- Product Strategy
- Go To Market Strategy
- New Product Development
- Strategic Partnership
- Innovation
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Expectation Management
- Initiative and Leadership
- Prototyping
- Market Opportunities
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