Heard from agencies

In the last two days, I have heard back from both agencies about the website project.  One agency seems to be more strongly geared toward web development, while the other seems to be more strongly geared toward the marketing aspects.  These two companies may turn out to be a good fit with each other.

The company focused on marketing will likely propose supporting the project by putting together a marketing kit for investment proposals, in order to raise the capital that will be needed to build the site to the extent that would be best for launch.  The website-focused company estimated (off-the-cuff) $100k-$300k, including much of the latter phase requirements / vision.  I re-focused him more toward core functionality for Phase 1, which he then saw and seemed to agree that we’d be able to accomplish much more cost effectively.  The marketing kit idea struck me positively, and that company also seemed to have a better handle on my needs as a startup, in needing to approach investors and establish partnerships.