SteliE

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by SteliE 15y ago
Congrats guys!!!
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20 SV Startups To Watch (Flotype & SwipeGood YCW11 made the list)(businessinsider.com)
15 points by SteliE 15y ago|0 comments
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by SteliE 15y ago
This is awesome! The SwipeGood Team will definitely participate!
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SmartGiving Lets Your Credit Card Choose Your Charity Causes(mashable.com)
11 points by SteliE 16y ago|1 comments
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by SteliE 16y ago
I completely get your point & at the same time it's really important not to be paralyzed by the need to make "the perfect choice" and act quickly in a moment of urgency. There needs to be balance between taking some time to make an info
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Support The Victims of Japan's Earthquake With Your Loose Change(blog.swipegood.com)
55 points by SteliE 16y ago|20 comments
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by SteliE 16y ago
It's easier because you don't have to make a decision what the right amount is and you can give proportionally to your spending! Reg our bm: SwipeGood uses 5% of each monthly donation to cover operational costs and 2.5% to cover the cost of
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by SteliE 16y ago
Every user can invite up to 100 people who each get $10 if they sign up (thats a max of $1000 for 100 users). Hope that clarifies it a bit :)
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by SteliE 16y ago
Our investors are really happy with us... we are in fact hiring engineers & designers right now as we speak. And this money is accelerating our growth today. Believe me when I tell you that if you can acquire new users for less money th
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by SteliE 16y ago
Every user on SwipeGood is generating $20/mth/user in donation revenue for the charities. Users stay enrolled with SwipeGood for a very long time and we take a 5% cut out of every transaction that is happening on our system! You see, it's a
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by SteliE 16y ago
Steli here from SwipeGood! On average our users donate over $20 per month to charity and stay enrolled for a very long time...so this move is a win/win/win. It's great for our users to be able to instantly give away money for charity ; grea
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by SteliE 16y ago
Giving away your "loose change" for charity is an idea that has been around for a very long time and resonates very well with people. SwipeGood just makes this model scale with all your purchases since you sign up with your card. It's easy
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by SteliE 16y ago
thx man! we're looking to hire amazing people so if you know anyone let me know ( steli at swipegood dot com) ;)
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This Christmas, turn your gifts into charitable giving(blog.swipegood.com)
44 points by SteliE 16y ago|13 comments
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How to use hand written notes to connect with users & recruit advisors(blog.swipegood.com)
11 points by SteliE 16y ago|1 comments
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Bringing Simplicity to Philantropy - Or - How to make giving simple(blog.swipegood.com)
1 points by SteliE 16y ago|0 comments
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by SteliE 16y ago
We started SwipeGood to make it super simple for people to give without having to decide when/how much etc...you would simply sign up with your credit/debit card and round up every transaction you do to the nearest dollar and donate the dif
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HN Review: Turn your Blippy into a Charity Fundraising Machine(swipegood.com)
13 points by SteliE 16y ago|4 comments
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by SteliE 16y ago
thanks zts - u have some really good points! we might need to rethink the fb connect signup (since we heard the same feedback from multiple sources) also need to put more info on the page ( just for you, its only USA since Yodlee which is t
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by SteliE 16y ago
Good point. We heard this before. Prob will have to change the signup process! Thx for the feedback :)
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by SteliE 16y ago
We want to be as transparent as possible and thought of the same idea :) Automatically tweeting/fbing every donation you do and showing people how much change all their friends are making per month! Thx for the support!
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by SteliE 16y ago
We thought about it long and decided that the ultimate goal is to have the maximum impact and make SwipeGood sustainable without any grants and gov support. We believe that it doesn't matter what form the org has but how much positive chang
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by SteliE 16y ago
Yeah fair enough :) We need to build way more trust on step1 - any ideas?
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by SteliE 16y ago
Good point. We need to improve the landing page plus signup page. Any ideas? :)
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by SteliE 16y ago
Right now zero. We will send 100% minus the transaction fees from authorize.net to DonorsChoose.org. To be honest we're still looking at all the numbers to see what will be the best way to go about it and what % we need to take to make Swip
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by SteliE 16y ago
Thx! Will do! We just didn't want to wait and already start collecting feedback :)
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by SteliE 16y ago
Hey HNers! :) We just launched this first basic version of SwipeGood so we can get some user feedback before we move forward. Right now we haven't got Yodlee implemented so we can't do the monthly transactional data but have to ask the user
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Rate my startup: SwipeGood - Roundup every purchase you make & donate the change(swipegood.com)
25 points by SteliE 16y ago|34 comments
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by SteliE 16y ago
this looks super cool!!! nice job...
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by SteliE 17y ago
1) Thanks - should be fixed now :) 2) Really? There should be an "alarm" icon displayed for that point...hmm...let me know if you can't see it and on what browser/os you are. thx!

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