One of the ways to understand marketing (in a consumer oriented startup) is to read about some situations and think how you would have acted in such a scenario. I am thinking of "Suppose this was day one of Instagram. How would you acquire users 100 to 1000? Option A: Give a talk in photography class. Optiob B: Post on reddit".<p>Do you guys know of any quizzes/marketing exams like this?<p>Thanks!
You can't really learn consumer marketing like this. Hindsight is 20/20 -- successes like Instagram are mostly throwing spaghetti at a wall and seeing what sticks. B2B marketing is a little less luck-driven, but not that much. There's a lot of data-gathering, trial-and-error, etc., and what worked in the past for one product isn't going to work at a different time or for a different product.<p>If you want to learn product marketing, find opportunities to practice it in real situations.