Flykt
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| Startup Name | Flykt |
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| What problem are you solving? | People have currently less and less time, and more and more information to chose from. According to research by Google and others, the typical traveler makes more than 12 online searches, over as much as twenty websites, when booking a travel. We solve this problem, we inspire people with amazing places and we let them book without leaving our website. |
| What is your solution? | Flykt.com is an inspirational, budget oriented travel website.
The service does not ask for a destination, but for your keyword, a date, a budget and a travel category. Flykt takes travel personalization one step further, by bundling inspirational search with social media inputs. Our customers are all the travellers, and traveller’s to be, all the people looking to explore the world and to get to know new places and cultures. |
| Target Market | Consumers |
| How will you make money? | Flight + Hotel or Flight only |
| Tell us about the market & founders, why is this a great opportunity? | The idea was born in a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu mat. Pedro and Ricardo are training partners and have felt since they met that they should join in a venture together, one in which business (Ricardo’s experience) and Behavioral Science (Pedro’s expertise) could be brought together. Ricardo is a hardcore traveler and was talking about the frustration of finding places where to go, as the idea started germinating in the breaks of sparring moments. After they sketched the idea, they talked to about a dozen developers who would go out of their way to explain how incredibly complex (and close to impossible) the project was. Then they met this really reserved developer who heard the idea, just answered “ok”, left the cafe, and sent them a programmed MVP two weeks after. |
| Founders Names | Ricardo Camarinha |
| Website | http://www.flykt.com |
| Twitter Handle | @flyktcom |
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