Thanks for the comment. It wasn't a surprise for us that people won't fund other people vacations. We were betting more on volunteering/charitable trips, crazy adventures, honeymoons.

Also, even though we were called "crowdfunding for travelers", we were betting a lot on the sponsorship model - there are a lot of great companies willing to sponsor interesting trips. If you google around, you will find a lot of independent travelers backed by some awesome brands like Samsung, Skype, etc.

We wanted to explore the sponsorship angle more (and managed to work with over 56 brands on this), but were focusing on way too many things and didn't have enough resources to play with the idea. I still believe there a huge potential in that space of done right. We clearly didn't do everything right. Well, we're learning.