The foundation development-as-in-fundraising team have been working to set up a public-facing Mozilla gear store. Our current hope is to have it live for mid-December 2013. TL’DR: The vendors have been reviewed and selected (Treehouse and Shopify), the business plan is almost done, the cost expenditure has been approved, and the 3rd-party vendor bugs for… Continue reading Quick Update on MozGear Store!
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Rethinking Small Dollar Fundraising
Money-making As a non-profit, Mozilla has access to four types of revenue: grants, gifts, donations, and earned income. Our earned income streams come through Firefox, which leaves the other three – grants, gifts, and donations – to be driven by our fundraising strategy (the focus of this post). So far, and while we can always… Continue reading Rethinking Small Dollar Fundraising
Minimum Viable Partnership
How to actually start working together. Technology start-ups talk about Minimum Viable Products. The term refers to a product that has “just those features that allow [it] to be launched, and no more.” This is also a useful concept when it comes to partnership. When working with a new partner, there’s a damaging tendency to… Continue reading Minimum Viable Partnership
Geoffrey MacDougall 