8.0 Thank you

Natalia Shipilova
Disruptive Startup
Published in
3 min readSep 9, 2015

Max Larcombe for being attentive to my report problem, for huge help during my intensive journey with challenging moments, for your precious time and professional facilitation.

Tash Willcocks for being attentive and available at all times during my intensive journey with challenging moments, for your great support, precious time, professional facilitation, valuable contacts and inspiring references.

Lauren Currie for encouraging my choice to develop Circle of Life concept, your precious time, precious contacts and valuable advice.

Sarah Gee, Vicky Greenhalgh, Claire Turner for your kind assistance during my intensive research journey.

Warren Harrison for your precious answers to my questions.

All Hyper Team for your positive energy and great assistance.

Crew 5 & Why Not Team for your great support, valuable references and feedbacks.

Barbara Chalmers Founder, Final Fling, for inspiring me with your amazing story of founding FinalFling.com, for huge support, your precious time, for a press-release about my story on FinalFling.com , for sharing information about Circle of Life on Facebook group, for your valuable expert opinion and feedback.

Magnus Blikeng, Product Strategist, Evolver, for being supportive during my intensive journey with challenging moments, for your constant valuable feedbacks, precious time and valuable expert opinion.

Mary Wallace, Associate Planning Director, AKQA, for being supportive, for your precious time, valuable expert opinion and feedbacks.

Doug Ward, Co-founder, SpacePortX, for being supportive, inspiring me and believing in Circle of Life, for your precious time, valuable expert opinion and feedback.

Vimla Appadoo, Community and Marketing Manager, SpacePortX for being supportive, inspiring me and believing in Circle of Life, for your precious time, valuable expert opinion and feedback, for your huge help with industry experts’ contacts.

Rebecca Taylor, Founding Partner, The Curiosity Bureau for your huge support, your precious time, valuable expert opinion and feedback.

Michelle Hua, Founder, Made with Glove, for being supportive and attentive to my requests, inspiring me with her amazing story, for precious time, valuable expert opinion and feedback.

All industry experts for precious time, valuable expert opinion and feedback:

Katie Finney, Co-founder, Amity

Charlotte Fountaine, Designer, Snook

Salem Seid-mohamed, Founder & CEO, Fevue

Paul Delamere, Co-founder, ShinDigger Brewing Co.

Gustaf Alstromer, Product Manager, Airbnb San Francisco

Matthias Schuecking, Head of Marketing APAC, Airbnb Singapores

Denise McQuald, Managing Director, UP Manchester

Gareth Burton, FCCA, MD

Gareth Langley, Director of Business Development, Stardotstar

Jenny Theolin, Director, Soapbox & Sons Ltd.

Dr.Karl Warner, Lecturer in Strategy & International Business School of Management, Edinburgh Napier University

Oleg Fomenko, Entrepreneur, London

Julie Wolstenholme for your huge help and support during my intensive journey with challenging moments, for helping with the text for Circle of Life web-page and giving valuable feedback.

Igor Goikhberg for being supportive, giving professional feedback and references.

Zul Suriya for being supportive, giving valuable tips and feedback on Circle of Like web-service prototype and the concept.

Szilvia Gardian for being supportive and inspiring me, for participating in the jobs-to-be-done interview.

Olesya Ovchinnikova for being supportive participating in the jobs-to-be-done interview.

All funeral industry experts for precious time, valuable expert opinion and feedback:

Dumitru Pop Tincu, Artist, The Merry Cemetery, and his daughter Anamaria

Vlad Shalaev, Director of Death Museum, Novosibirsk Sergey Borisovich Yakushin, Director and Founder of a Crematorium and a Museum, Novosibirsk

Pavel Ivanovich Novikov, Deputy Director and psychologist of a Crematorium, Novosibirsk.

Robert Barr, General Manager, The Manchester Crematorium Ltd.

Liz Thompson, Independent Celebrant, Manchester Bryan Powell, Funeral Director, Powell & Family

Lee Johnstone, Funeral Arranger, The co-operative funeralcare, Manchester

John Cribb, Senior Partner, T.Cribb & Sons, London Shantel Hallihan, Administrator, T.Cribb & Sons, London

James Convery, Tutor and Celebrant, UK Society of Celebrants

Glynis Fletcher, Counsellor, Supervisor, Death Cafe, Stratford-upon-Avon

Rebecca Patterson, Policy & Communications Manager Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care, CBC House

My team:
Alya Shipilova, Vladimir Samsonov, Egor Sekirin for amazing Circle of Life Identity, great support, valuable expert opinion and feedback.

Ivan Meshcheryakov for proposing one of the concepts for a Museum.

Eric le Roy for great support and professional proof-read.

My friends for great contribution:
Viktoria Biragova, Daria Ivanova, Yulya Kolot, Ksenia Molostvova, Sasha Shipilova, Sasha Bekhterev, Alexey Romanov, Natalia Lukianova, Irina Kozlova, Tanya Smirnova, Daria Mingalieva, Alla Pereslegina, Matt Long.

All the interview participants, Facebook friends and hypers network for your valuable contribution to Circle of Life concept development and valuable feedbacks.

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Natalia Shipilova
Disruptive Startup

Life and Innovation driven. Digital Strategist / Concept Developer. E: nvshipilova@gmail.com