[geofft]

I feel like I'd buy that in the short term - that's what VC money is for. (And perhaps in the long term too.) The hard part is the live streaming; sending <1 kilobyte of data to 170k concurrent users every few seconds isn't a fundamentally challenging problem (it's on the order of 1Gbps outbound traffic). YouTube has a live-streaming API I'd be inclined to build a proof of concept with and see how far that gets me; if not, a couple minutes of Googling finds me Ustream, owned by IBM, charging $99-$999/month for their "professional" tier, and Livestream (.com) charging $799 for their "enterprise" tier, with both having a call-us-if-you-need-more tier. That's cheap enough that you can fund the tech side on this on even just the old-school YC $20K until you have enough traction to do a better job of it.