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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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The feeling’s mutual: How an acquisition accelerated Northwestern Mutual’s digital transformation

DISQO

The name Northwestern Mutual was created when Milwaukee was the most northwestern part of the United States…9 years after the state of Wisconsin joined the union,” Charles Worman says with a slight chuckle. The company’s product director and unofficial historian considers how drastically the world has changed since then.

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The feeling’s mutual: How an acquisition accelerated Northwestern Mutual’s digital transformation

DISQO

The name Northwestern Mutual was created when Milwaukee was the most northwestern part of the United States…9 years after the state of Wisconsin joined the union,” Charles Worman says with a slight chuckle. The company’s product director and unofficial historian considers how drastically the world has changed since then.

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The feeling’s mutual: How an acquisition accelerated Northwestern Mutual’s digital transformation

DISQO

The name Northwestern Mutual was created when Milwaukee was the most northwestern part of the United States…9 years after the state of Wisconsin joined the union,” Charles Worman says with a slight chuckle. The company’s product director and unofficial historian considers how drastically the world has changed since then.

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Who’s Speaking at Amplify 2019?

Amplitude

In 2015, Merci joined Slack as the Director of Product and Growth. 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. Merci Grace is partly to thank for that. James Buckhouse.

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Builder beware: marketing tension in product-first companies

Intercom, Inc.

Big clients end up dictating the roadmap, there’s no product vision, and your product quickly turns into incoherent bloatware. This led to an era of marketing-driven companies. pithy statement: “Marketing is what you do when your product or service sucks.” Product-first contrasts this.

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What I Learned From 3.5 Years as a Product Leader at a VC Backed SaaS Startup

The Product Coalition

I was attending a very small startup event where Gregory Culpin presented the company and its market vision. I built a new operating company with two passionate people with a sound vision of the HR industry future, Thibault Halbrecq and Arthur Roose. I joined this highly motivated group of fifteen people in September 2015.