The Most Cliched Travel Startup Pitches of 2013


Skift Take

Everyone thinks they have a travel startup in them, and it shows. Our fave: TripAdvisor for Travel.
These are real lines from startup profiles on AngelList, all of them travel startups listed this year: The one-liners: Airbnb for Boats Uber for Buses HotelTonight for Live Events TripAdvisor for Travel ... (really!) Yelp for Venues Amalgamation of Facebook, LinkedIn, Quora & Yelp. The cliched descriptors, this year (or could be any year over the last decade): We think that no one really found the recipe to help people have a good experience researching, creating and organizing your own travel itinerary. Disruptive social site revolving around travel...Allows users to plan, socialize, save and book travel. We’re all about bo