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congrats ya'll, what happened in the past couple months to spike the number of patients funded? Would love to hear more about 'growth hacking' a charity like th

• gracegarey 11y ago
  Thank you! It's been a combination of 2 things: 1) building tools that make it easier for our hospital partners to scale with us more efficiently, thereby increasing their capacity to send us more patients, and 2) product/marketing. If you're interested in the growth side of Watsi, we opened up a bunch of our data to Segment earlier this year, and they put out this post about the growth learnings they gathered: https://segment.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-watsis-data/ https://segment.com/blog/what-we-learned-from-watsis-data/ We also talked with First Round a few months ago about how we use email marketing to grow donations: http://firstround.com/review/what-startups-can-learn-from-watsis-wildly-successful-email-campaign/ http://firstround.com/review/what-startups-can-learn-from-wa... Hopefully we'll be able to share more learnings in the next couple of months!
  • dmix 11y ago
    Awesome, have you guys considered open sourcing your software? Maybe you could get donations in terms of OSS contributions to help build your technical infrastructure.
    • gracegarey 11y ago
      Yes, we have plans to open source our software in the future. Stay tuned!