What Startups Can and Can’t Learn from Luxury Home Share Club Inspirato
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Learn about the trends that are driving venture funding in travel, and what startups need to know as they vie to secure the capital necessary for their growth.
We recently released our latest report in the Skift Trends series, Venture Investment Trends in the Travel Industry 2015.
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Brent Handler concedes he had something of an advantage when he co-founded Inspirato in 2011: Nearly a decade earlier, he and two partners (including his brother) founded the destination club Exclusive Resorts, selling majority ownership to AOL co-founder Steve Case just two years later and staying on as president until 2009.
But that didn’t mean that getting a second company off the ground would be easy. Investors weren’t exactly tripping over themselves to back Inspirato, which grants members who pay a one-time i
