Other than being respected in the community and being known for a trustworthy person and having a good idea, what other ways to find funders and investors?
I would like to start a gambling website for mainly PvP so it will need fairly little starting capital since people will be playing against each other rather then the house so there is no house edge , we will only take the rake from each bet people play.
This might require a loyal good quality freelance developer (to develop first then to maintain it safe forever) in the pay loop and designer to make it look good , marketing will be done by me and all of this might cost some coins and I do not have it , my budget right now is about 100$ or slightly more , I might need a starting capital of 1000$ first and after that I might go with the earnings or maybe will need bigger funds to market even more the get more attraction.
There isn't really any safe way to take investments like this without having built up some trust first. Most just wont trust you at all enough to invest in your site as many people just try scam this way. Maybe you could look for an already trusted business partner to act as some sort of escrow on it or gurantee it but even that will be risky for that person and most wont want to stake their rep on the line.