[pguerin]

> "What you should explain is why this techie isn't going to be the one sitting around doing all the work while you tell him what to do."

Building a startup isn't only about coding... you need to create the brand and make the target public aware of your product (marketing). Thus, connections helps and the will to execute the idea is essential. Most business people that comes up to me with a new venture talks like this, I see nothing wrong there. You also need to do all the paperwork to make your startup legal, etc. For all I know, you guys seem pretty serious about your project and that's a good thing :)

> "In other words, you really need to sell yourselves as people who can make something happen. Do you have a track record?"

Yes, it would be interesting to know why the startup is different that the rest so we know it's not one of those bad startups that goes nowhere. You don't need lots of details, just a simple explanation about the vision & scope of your project and why we shouldn't use the online travel sites that already exist on the internet. What is different about your project and what is the competition? (no competition is not an answer! ;)