Funding an "Adult Oriented" start-up?

Post by nora » Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 2:47 AM UTC

jseliger wrote: post #19

You might want to read http://www.portfolio.com/culture-lifestyle/culture-inc/arts/... ">this article from Portfolio magazine before you approach investors: they read plenty of things too and are well-aware of the problems with the industry. The big question you have to answer is whether you can make money in the kind of environment described by the article. Anyway, not to ask the obvious, but have you applied to YC?

Post by einarvollset » Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 3:21 AM UTC

Post by zack » Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 3:49 AM UTC

stcredzero wrote: post #20

mixmax wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think people will pay for it though. Streaming high quailty content requires both good source material and a lot of infrastructure - none of which are cheap.

Note that I said that the functionality was "Tivo-Like." No streaming is necessary! You have content organized in "channels." You start out with very small resolution and short streaming "previews." But once you subscribe to a "channel" the application starts downloading longer Bittorrent "episodes" from torrents that are posted to an RSS feed. So there is an initial period when people only have access to "previews,"…

Post by rcs » Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 4:13 AM UTC

neilk wrote: post #24

Maybe you should get in touch with Kink.com. I know a number of people who work there and it seems to be a good organization, and in its own way very scrupulous.

Post by rcs » Fri, Dec 12, 2008, 4:20 AM UTC

answerly wrote: post #16

Is there any "non-adult" application of your technology/process/methods? If so, one strategy may be to show that this will work with many different types of content and not just adult content. That way you go from being a purely adult oriented company to a technology company with multiple markets, one of which happens to be the adult industry. For example, the ad network Adbrite operates one general purpose ad networ…