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How JustGiving Crowdfunding Went From an Idea to £100m in Five Years

Mind the Product

Initially JustGiving supported only registered charities on its website, but the founders’ vision was to support all good causes. In 2012, when I was working as part of the JustGiving team responsible for innovative products and disruptive business models, we decided to test how people could raise money for non-charitable good causes.

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Why Product Features Matter

Department of Product

And the product team responsible got some pretty brutal reviews in the process. At the time, back in 2014, this was so much easier than having to navigate around using Google Maps. They’re addictive. And stimulating. But by themselves they produce little. Building things should mean you’re adding value.

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My AMA on NextBigWhat

Arpit Rai

I just realized that I had not cross-posted my responses on the AMA on my Medium blog. Feature Development: For B2C products, you’re likely to only develop those features that affect a majority of your customers. I’ve explained this in a series of blog posts here. I wrote a long blog post on this actually.

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My AMA at NextBigWhat

Arpit Rai

I just realized that I had not cross-posted my responses on the AMA on my Medium blog. Feature Development: For B2C products, you’re likely to only develop those features that affect a majority of your customers. I’ve explained this in a series of blog posts here. I wrote a long blog post on this actually.

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Concept Testing Examples and Methods for SaaS

Userpilot

To improve its blog strategy, Better Proposals asked its subscriber base which blog types they read the most so they could focus on creating more. Understand Customer Needs and Optimize the Product Development Process : Concept testing lets you pinpoint exactly what features resonate with your audience.

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Playing Whack-A-Mole With Risk

Tyner Blain

When it comes to developing a product strategy – or even making decisions about how best to create a product, one of these assumptions is likely to be what causes us to fail. Laura Klein spoke at the Lean Startup Conference about identifying risky assumptions and her talk was published in Dec 2014. Identifying Risky Assumptions.

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Product to Product: Hotjar’s Marc Von Brockdorff on freemium pricing models

Roadmunk

Marc: I’m one of the founders of Hotjar, and we started back in 2014. It started as a bold vision to change the way the web is built by democratizing user data and feedback. I, myself, started off as a developer. My role changed from developer to recruitment. I was just focusing on building the team.