PR NEWSWIRE — Sep 12 — TripConnect, a social networking site for travel advice closed $1 million of first round funding led by Masthead Venture Partners and individual private investors. TripConnect helps people obtain travel advice from friends and family.
Mark Brooks: WAYN.com is their main competition, and has a more compelling service. WAYN is unusual because of it's travel focus, and it's paid membership model…which is actually working quite well for them.
It is amazing to see the number of VC’s jumping on the bandwagon of the Web 2.0 gold rush. Sort of reminds you of the days of fiber optics.