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Who am I?
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What is Venture Capital?
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Is it easy to get Venture Capital for travel start-
ups?
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What type of businesses are VC's looking to
invest in?
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How do I see the market
developing?
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from thelongtail.com blog by Chris Anderson Editor of Wired Magazine
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Macro Micro
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Why give up a career in the VC industry to start
up an online travel platform?
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Current bugbitten.com stats
• 3.5 million photos
• 100,000 travel blogs
• 2,500 destination recommendations
• 1,500 tour listings
• 500 tour recommendations
• 2 million pages indexed by Google!
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Summary• bugbitten.com was the niche that we
found in the market from our 10 years of living/working abroad
• there are thousands of working holiday makers who are experiencing new things every day on their travels
• any one of these travellers could be identifying new gaps in the market