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

Mind the Product

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. 2012 – the Inception. The MVP in 2012 (and the world’s first fully responsive crowdfunding website).

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6 Product Managers Who Became CEOs-and How!

The Product Coalition

While some may say that a Product Manager is ‘the CEO of the product’, that’s not entirely true. Both positions involve being the keeper of a vision, and both also have to be decision makers by curating ideas from many different sources. As a Product Manager, you have very little authority.

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How to Develop Your Product Career, Using the Product Quadrants

The Product Coalition

For instance, you cannot take a product to market without the requisite Product Marketing Manager knowledge, and in fact, this is an area I personally want to develop further. But does he spend his training time practising improving his defensive positioning or tackling? No, he does not.

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Ten Years of How To Be a Good Product Manager

Good Product Manager

I’ve heard from people who disagree with me, and they presented arguments that made me rethink (and even change) some of my positions. 1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions. million pages viewed. 200+ posts.

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Ten Years of How To Be a Good Product Manager

Good Product Manager

I’ve heard from people who disagree with me, and they presented arguments that made me rethink (and even change) some of my positions. 1 “spinoff” site: Ask A Good Product Manager (2008-2012) 1 design (in need of an upgrade/overhaul, I know). Nearly 850,000 sessions. million pages viewed. 200+ posts.

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Customer Development Guide For Product Managers

The Product Coalition

And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit.

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Who’s Speaking at Amplify 2019?

Amplitude

Today, Merci works as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners , investing in early-stage consumer and B2B companies looking to find product-market fit and accelerated growth opportunities. In case you Join us at Amplify to be inspired by Marcelo’s discussion on the creative potential of your product marketing campaigns.