Right. You fill in your proposal, which is kept hidden. If you're in the top 10-rated "grasshoppers" in a subcom, at the end of the month, your proposal gets packaged into a nice email that goes out to just the top 5-rated "sensei" or experts.
Have you shared this with people who would be experts and actually interested in receiving proposals? I guess I don't fully understand how my activity in a news sharing site makes me important to an investor. You're basically trying to reward people who participate and submit links with the idea that their pitch will be seen by an investor who is following a topic you contribute to.
Its definitely an interesting approach. And there's some work to be done on the UI, education and flow within the site. You just need to make sure there's real value for everyone involved.
I have, and there are a few investors who are waiting to see what happens here. Myself included. It's got to be an organic process; hopefully some people with great ideas will start posting and sharing their concepts, and it will snowball. Although I should stress I don't see this as a primarily IT-oriented site, it could become anything, or go in any direction, depending on who gets involved. In a lot of ways it's an experimental, theoretical model. I have no idea if it will really work, but I can imagine a lot of interesting proposals being collected that would be interesting opportunities for investors, who in turn will have to work to get their ratings up, in order to see those proposals.
