Last year Cruise.me sold for $28,500, now the team gets ready to leave alpha testing and head-into a beta with a public launch around the corner in 2014. The bootstrapped startup is looking to change the way people book cruises by bringing the roughly 85% of people who book offline, online.
Yes, it sounds crazy but it’s true, only 15% of people book cruises online and there has been little disruption in the space, until now.
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“Fewer than 15 percent of cruises are currently booked online, Chip said. At the same time, cruise lines are increasingly catering to a younger crowd — both singles and families — meaning there is a big opportunity to make inroads as an online service.” (Source – TechCrunch)
I’ve covered the incredible growth of the .ME TLD in the startup space and this is another great example of an awesome startup disrupting a massive industry and doing it on a .ME domain. Congrats to the whole team, as someone who does just about everything online this is something I definitely can see myself using.
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