Originally Posted by BV

Just because you don't shoot the content yourself does not mean you would not own it. When you buy exclusive content you own it. Solely.

You can buy exclusive content for about 500 - 5000 per set and I would not consider starting with less than 20 sets as long as it's really niche stuff and as long as you plan to update with 1 new set every week at a minimum. The more the better of course.

So add a design and hosting and processing, you could easily get in the pay site game for 10k maybe less. But that's not even half the battle.

You still need traffic, but if your content idea is so great like you say, that will come on it's own once you start getting the word out and you have all the proper tools.

But with your experience level, chances of a success are slim, not impossible though.