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Social Networking - Thursday, June 8, 2006

Travel Community's Gusto Funded, But Has A Long Road

gusto logo.gifGusto, out of Springfield, MO is a community-based travel website that has raised $3M in VC funding from DHST LLC plus an additional $1M from CEO Jeff Wasson. He was formerly CEO of the travel eCommerce Web site TravelNow. Gusto is not about buying tickets but talking and showing pictures about your trip.

Granted Gusto is in beta, but it it does not currently strike us that the site is special. Travel community is getting particularly competitive so Gusto will have to come up with functionality that stands out to get traffic and get a return on investment.



TravelPod and BootsnAll - Two of the Myriad of Travel Community Sites Gusto Must Set Itself Apart From

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Posted by: olga at July 1, 2006 11:27 AM

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