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1) How it looks on my monitor: http://i.imgur.com/iSjP8ae.png - might not want to repeat that title image like that.

2) I would really like to see if there are any mentors relevant to my interests before I have to make yet another account on yet another website.

3) I really think mentorship is the best way to really become good at a skill. Hope it goes well for you.

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+1 for (2).

The other issue is, great mentors aren't usually plainly available on a website; the very act of finding their contact info/introduction and making a convincing pitch for "I'm worth meeting with" is a great filter for experts who (unlike YC, for example) don't have the bandwidth for an open application process.

This is so true, but I think a lot of people haven't had the opportunity to find good role-models in life and something like this could be a first step in the right direction.

The brilliant can be left to blaze their own obscure bildungsroman.

I think the previous comment was talking about the mentors not having time to go through an open-application process, not the people looking for mentors.

Great mentors don't have time, but less-than-great mentors do, and they are good enough for the target audience of Mentii.

most of my mentorship relationships (on both ends) have involved some sort of business relationship; in many ways, that makes it less weird?

Thanks for the screenshot .. we'll fix it. And Thanks for your good wishes :). We'll soon try to create something that will help you get a better sense interest areas of the mentor population inside.

Large monitor quirks. Oh well then there are mobiles and tablets to take care as well!

come on, 1) is not a big issue... Not big enough to put it first anyway!

It might be because it was the first thing he noticed, not the most important thing.

#1 and #2 are in the order I noticed them, and #3 is so the whole post isn't just criticism. There's no deeper meaning than that.

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