Chris Brown

How can I get donation or sponsors for my start-up website?

Hi everyone,

I just founded Fallomi.com . It’s a social networking platform for internet entrepreneurs, online money makers and learners to connect and share ways of making money online. It’s my new start-up, I’ve launched it a week ago. I haven’t done much for marketing, just working hard on SEO and building the content of the website and I have quite a nice number of users already and started generating money from Google Adsense. I have invested money building this platform and development for it. I do not have other money to invest on it for the moment. But I do need to run on my own servers and develop the platform according to users feedback and suggestions.

Bank loan: Thought of it. But I don’t know exactly how much I would need and I’m not so good with numbers. I don’t feel like working my brain on it.

Investors: I do not have a neat business plan. Investors will take too much of time and bla bla to say YES….OR NO! And they will want a big share on it. It’s my dream and I don’t feel like sharing my dream with investors at this stage. They will ask for a big amount since they will be kind of funding it. 60/40 isn’t for me right now. At this early stage. And there is a tiny chance that they accept to fund this.

Friends&Family: I do not want to rely on friends and family. I do not feel like asking money to close people. I am just like this.

I have registered myself to a donation system, http://www.gofundme.com/ej7vk , I haven’t received any donation even though I shared on Facebook and Twitter. I need some money to get a dedicated server as well as develop the website more. The website is hosted on a cheap shared server and cannot offer full performance. Users might get turned off by the bugs and server problems. Please guys give me some tips or suggestions. Will be highly appreciated !
At Hunch: Thanks for replying.

At Kemperk: Thanks for great advices. And the page wants you to sign up and join the community if you ARE an internet entrepreneur, online money maker or someone that wants to make some. Or else I would have just started writing blogs and get subscriptions.