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Christopher Tufford

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
88 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

So now that we're about to launch a pilot with a product, they can see where we're headed.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

They believe in what we're doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

One of the other things that's interesting about that is interconnected with them is a connection with their parent organization, which is Pillar Nonprofit in Ontario, in southwestern Ontario, which is sort of an umbrella group that represents other charities and nonprofits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

And so we're sort of using them as a great way to provide some warm introductions into that membership organization.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

So it's a bit of a sales lead too.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

Well, that's including me.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

Some of them are part-time, like our CTO is part-time when I need him, and our COO is part-time when I need him.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

Darren's been around from the very beginning.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

And then we've got a product consultant that's helping train up Manny, who's the product manager, and Tamari's doing the lead dev, and Cece's doing the front-end development.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

I have the vast majority of it.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

Darren's the next largest shareholder, and he's less than 10%.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

COO, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

He's got a lot of experience.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

He brought a lot of the team members together for us because he's worked with them in the past at some previous businesses.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

So he sort of brought these guys in, so that's how we knew they were good.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

Well, it's a relatively easy sale.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

You can understand that if you're a small and mid-sized charity or nonprofit right now, you've been hurt pretty hard by the pandemic, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

A lot of these organizations, not that different from my son's karate team, did a lot of their fundraising through offline in-person events, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

They ran walk-run bike-a-thons and charity golf tournaments and charity auctions and all this type of stuff that they haven't been able to run and do anymore.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
How He Raised $500k With No Product, No Revenue for NonProfit tool

So