I thought Kellan’s proposal for Fandangle.com was the strongest indy media pitch in the class. While I doubt this is a site I personally would frequent because I’m not exactly a big sports fan, I know fantasy sports is huge for the people who are into it as a hobby/interest — which means there is actually a need in the market for something like Fandangle, and fantasy sports followers would probably respond well to it. It’s a realistic, workable niche in the online independent media market.
That said, because I’m not into this kind of thing I have no idea whether there are already Web sites out there that are too similar to Fandangle… I have a feeling someone must have thought of this same thing already, but Kellan did do a solid job of acknowledging the competition in his pitch.
I liked his idea to make Fandangle by college students, for college students. With something like this, that so many students are already into, they would probably care to read what their buddies are predicting about Team X this week and how they’re going to do in Monday night’s game. A staff of eight people is on the high end of reasonable… maybe for its start-up, it could work with half that.
That was one thing that stood out to me about this proposal in light of all the others — it actually seems doable and realistic. It was well thought-out, and Kellan fleshed out all the necessary aspects of the pitch.
