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Renee Zau

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
154 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So we actually operate on a freemium model.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

We help the companies that are flooded with requests.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

They can actually use us for free because we're really wanting to promote their donating to their communities.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

We know it's a really good win-win thing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

And, um, if they want to use us with, um, I guess what you can call premium features, uh, more marketing and outreach capabilities, then we have a subscription, which is just 49 a month.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

It is exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So we have about a hundred active companies right now.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Really, we have very little churn.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Once they get started and realize how easy we make it, they really don't leave unless they close.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Well, so not all of those are actually paid customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

I would say the majority of them still use us for free.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

You know what?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

They actually generate a lot of value in our ecosystem though.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So even though we get, we don't get direct revenue from them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Um, I actually didn't get to the part where we actually do have the same, uh, similar freemium options for the event leaders where they actually pay us to, um, once, once we start driving them or revenue and, you know, I guess revenue potential donations.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

So we, we started, the idea really took seed in 2010.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

We went through a couple of great startup accelerators and I would say we founder institutes and startup leadership program.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

And we really, I would really like to say we actually launched in 2013 because that's when we felt like we actually knew what we were doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 473: Raising $500k To Help Charity Event Organizers, $16M Donated with DonationMatch CEO Renee Zau

Yeah, well, we are bootstrapped, you're right.