Poll Everywhere (YC Summer 08) Asks The Crowd To Spice Up PowerPoint Presentations(techcrunch.com)
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Poll Everywhere (YC Summer 08) Asks The Crowd To Spice Up PowerPoint Presentations
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Premium SMS is a shady armpit of telecom. Non-profits actually can't do fundraising over premium SMS because the carriers take a 55% cut of revenues and are ashamed of it (they say they don't have a reliable process for certifying non-profit campaigns). They made an exception during Katrina. Our answer is to let people send a text message to pledge a donation at a live event, and process payment a different way later.
For the founders: what's the going rate on a short code these days?
$2000/month minimum from the best service provider, mBlox. MO (from a cell phone) is free and actually pays you revenue share from carriers at volumes above 50K/mo. MT (the "spam direction") is 2.5-4 cents each.
Now, using an area code database they can integrate SMS polls with a map. "Text Iphone or whatever to 41411..." and we can see live the number of people who have Iphones or a certain product and where they live.