What do you see as the biggest challenges Watsi faces?
So far, we've asked two of our funders to sit on our board (alongside Premal Shah of Kiva): Paul Graham, and Christy Chin of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation.
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/
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-wa...
Hopefully we'll be able to share more learnings in the next couple of months!
I'm currently a Universal Fund[0] member on Watsi and I've found it to be a very positive experience. Instead of feeling like I'm making a hard decision between treatments for many sick people I just give a set monthly amount and then each month I receive an upbeat email letting me know which patient received my funding.
I also like that my Watsi profile page shows me how many different countries my donations have reached.
