There are a couple hundred "mentors" on there now at varying skill levels, with several dozen happy matches.
As Gabriel mentioned in the blog post - "Identify people that would make good mentors, i.e. with the right domain experience." The site looks very generic from outside and forces me to signup without even giving me a peek of kind of people I can expect to see in the community.
I might be looking for a startup mentor in a particular domain, and may be there is none of that type on it right now. Or may be some people on it are providing mentor-ship on how to go about learning a specific skill like flying etc that I am interested in, but since I have no clue, I probably won't sign up.
You can think of highlighting a few profiles or at least a few categories helping a visitor understand whether (s)he should join this community or not.
Good luck, and hope it becomes a good success.
You see, I think I would make a good mentor for a junior software developer. I've worked in a lot of different domains, using a lot of different tools. I took the Construx "peer mentoring" course, have led educational seminars, etc.
But, I'm also part of a small team working on a brand-new startup, and would love to be on the learning side of a mentor relationship with someone who has early-stage startup experience. And I have to pick just one option. Seems conceptually broken to me. Maybe I'm an outlier.
I really like the concept!
In chrome on Windows, the bio field you see on mouseover is showing up to the left, partially off the screen, so I can only see a few words of the bio.
Common enough bug, probably an easy fix.