[yoseph]

if you have a billion dollar idea or even a million dollar idea, you shouldn't worry about "burning" contacts. You'll have plenty of other people to test with.

If people have enough of a pain point, they'll happily use a google doc. Look at Craigslist. It's god-farking-awful (worse than a google doc), but people still use it to find apartments...

Let me ask you a question. What is the number one thing you need to test to prove the viability of this idea?

[mittermayr]

wow interesting remark. let me think, i'd say: if i get to find some 20 to 50 people willing to meet incoming folks with a certain flexiblity on meeting topic in different cities, willing to actually act on it, it probably would prove a point. so yeah, i get your statement. a google doc or some facebook arrangement will help to validate this quickly for sure.

i'll think a bit more about the viability question, it's a tricky and essential one ... the google doc + google form thing could be worth a test...