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Zau: Sourcing Charity Event In-Kind Donations Takes 300 Hours
“It takes about 300 hours to secure all those in-kind donations you need for those auctions, raffles, and event giveaways.”
Disclosure
Zau: Founders took on $100K in credit card debt to bootstrap DonationMatch
“Oh, about a hundred K.”
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Zau: DonationMatch Generates $8 Revenue Per Event on $1 CAC
“Our revenue per event is eight dollars per event. Our customer acquisition cost is a dollar per”
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Zau: DonationMatch Acquired 13,000 Nonprofit Users on Under $15,000 Spend
“The fact that we have 13,000 customers with less than on the nonprofit side with less than 15,000 dollars marketing spend on 30.”
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DonationMatch Has Matched $16M in In-Kind Charity Donations
“We basically matched sixteen million dollars worth of goods, which is products, gift certificates, admission tickets, things like that.”
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Zau: DonationMatch Sees Very Little Churn Unless Companies Close
“Really, we have very little churn. Once they get started and realize how easy we make it, they really don't leave unless they close.”
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Zau: Most Active Companies on DonationMatch Are Free Users
“Well, so not all of those are actually paid customers. I would say the majority of them still use us for free.”
Disclosure
Zau: DonationMatch Is Raising $500,000 on a Convertible Note
“So we are raising 500,000.”
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Zau: DonationMatch Has 10% of San Diego Nonprofits on Its Platform
“We have about 10% of nonprofits in San Diego in our system.”
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Zau: DonationMatch CTO will return full-time once funding is raised
“As soon as we raise money, he's coming right back.”
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DonationMatch targets $50k in 2016 revenue, doubling yearly since 2013
“2016. We're looking at about 50 K. So we've been doubling pretty much year over year since 2013.”
Disclosure
DonationMatch did $3.5k–$4k revenue in September 2016 with $1.5k MRR
“So the actual recurring is probably actually, gosh, it's really only about 1500 of that. The total revenue was closer to 3504 thousand.”
Disclosure
DonationMatch has 5,000–6,000 events and 100 active corporate clients in 2016
“We have about Five, 6000 events this year and a hundred active companies. So a hundred customers.”