Ask HN: Quit our jobs, dumped GF, need help meeting VCs

Two weeks ago, my friend and I quit our day jobs as highly paid SEO consultants back in Norway, sold our apartments, broke up with our girlfriends and jumped on a plane to Silicon Valley. We're part of a small team building something really great; a competitor to Pinterest in the online shopping space, centered around crowd sourced lists.

For the next month, we're in Silicon Valley trying to promote our product, especially setting up some VC meetings. We've been an active part of the HN community for a while, and figured that some of you guys might have some advice or connections to help us make it happen.

We have a lot to learn about business culture, Silicon Valley and doing stuff the right way; but we try to make up for that in terms of passion, a deep understanding of how the web works (especially search engine optimization) and ambition.

Do you know a VC or angel interested in the online shopping space? If so, we'd love to hear from you. My private email is eric@listnerd.com. (In return, we'd love to help you out with your SEO strategy; including setting up a logical link hierarchy, white hat PageRank sculpting, link building, etc.)

Our early stage and unfinished pitch deck is available for download here: http://blog.listnerd.com/listnerd-short.pptx