Hey /r/startups,
I'm about to launch my app/website which is a travel social-network for cruisers, without breaking the rules by speaking too much about it, it allows cruisers to post reviews, create onboard events, post in forums, join groups and find information before they set sail (think Cruise Critic but more social and modern)
We've been able to make up a large subscriber list with 15,000 users pre-registered for our launch and an average of 680,000 post reach on Facebook every week.
We've tested and validated our idea largely by building interest and an engaged email-list of users waiting for our launch - in terms of revenue, the statistics and competition alone prove that there is a strong potential revenue model for this industry, with cruisers spending an average of $167/day on their ticket, and 22 million people setting sail each year.
At this point, we haven't completed our revenue model, which would be allowing users to search for cruises and compare prices, then book them with a partner website - unfortunately, these partners want to see big numbers and a launched product before they give away their prices and allow you to become an affiliate, but to allow this growth to happen, we need to support the cost of our servers and infrastructure.
We have basic ads that I'm hoping will support the server cost for the next little while, but we will ultimately need a medium-sized injection from an angel-investor to allow our growth to continue and be supported while we develop features and relationships for our revenue model.
Where is the best place to start looking into this? Where do you find investors who can see the return and potential on a large audience with a revenue-model not yet fully deployed?
Thanks in advance.
FYI - I can't find the daily advice thread stickied.
Submitted September 18, 2017 at 07:13AM by Mazux2 http://ift.tt/2yjJjWO
