Let's continue to encourage people to give to charities with shit effectiveness!
Same thing happens with whoever I give money to - taxes, paying off my wife's credit card, etc...
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#22It won't fly just like this - You can't just ask people to download an app and donate a buck a day. You need an incentive. This will definitely work if the $1 gets the donor an "item of the day" from the play store, which Google can most certainly give out copies for "free".
I assume you'll be able to follow the charity you've donated to and feel like you've made a difference by seeing what they're up to.
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#23Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.
I'm sorry bro. :(
My cofounder and I are in a precarious position ourselves, and if a bright VP decides to zig instead of zag, well, shit.
Don't let it get to you!
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#24What do they do to prevent fraudulent charities? E.g. a "save the seals" campaign that spends all its money on lavish salaries and helps one seal a year? People paying only one dollar are unlikely to do much research.
From: http://www.google.com/onetoday/faq.html
How you find the nonprofits featured on One Today? All the nonprofits on One Today are members of Google for Nonprofits.
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#25This sounds an awful lot like Philanthroper, which Mark Wilson eventually had to shut down. However, it's a slightly new angle, and I sincerely hope they succeed. I created a nonprofit Facebook app many years ago in the same space. It's tough, but Google has the resources to see it through.
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#26Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.
My team for Startup Weekend Hong Kong did something similar as well [1], and we're still planning on bringing it to market.
Our goal was to use charity to incentivize people to form habits - we started with exercise, but it could easily extend to things like quitting smoking or spending more time reading. When you sign up with our app, you choose two charities - one that you like and one that you don't - and if you stick to your commitments, we send your money on (minus our overhead fee) to the one you like. If you don't stick to your commitment, we send your money to the other one.
I see this as a great bit of market validation.
1. http://www.slideshare.net/culturestate/promise-fit-slideshar...
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#27I once saw a nice idea when I was traveling to Sofia in Bulgaria. When I withdrew money at an ATM it asked me at the end if I would like to donate 1 LEV (0.66 USD, 0.5 EUR) to Unicef.
I really liked it, because it's a very small amount of money, a big name (Unicef), and it's no hassle at all.
I don't know if there are enough ATM withdrawals for the sum donated this way to be significant at all. But if yes, I wish they would do it in other countries, as well.
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#28Have you ever been working on something then had some huge company just go ahead and release exactly what you're building? Yeah, um, that totally didn't just happen to me.
I've got a friend working on the same thing :p
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#29Is it just me or is it really weird to request an invite to use an app which needs your donation?
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
And this is the real value of Bitcoin et al. As more and more commerce moves to the Internet, I become increasingly irked by the credit card processing "tax" levied by Visa/Mastercard. I long for the day we can yank those leeches off the legs of the Internet economy...
2% for all the fraud management seems like a fairly good deal all around.
Processors, issuers, and banks don't do fraud management for the merchant by default (though some banks may do it for the card holder). They _can_ do _some_ fraud management for merchants, but it costs an arm-and-a-leg.