I meant to write a response earlier but I just left the window open. Hopefully you'll still read my personal opinion about your venture and it helps. I too hav

I meant to write a response earlier but I just left the window open. Hopefully you'll still read my personal opinion about your venture and it helps. I too have the problem you are talking about. I'm very interested in the people in places I visit and taking part is "local activities". I've used resources such as local mailing lists. reddit etc. to find interesting people and places to go to at my travels. I've had major success with that, for example I had the pleasure of going on a huge bike ride with someone from the NYC Reddit mailing list from Central Park to Kony island. I had a 12 hour connection and I don't think I could have spent those 12 hours better (I also visited relatives, so my schedule was super tight). This is still one of my best travel experiences. I hope by now I've established I'm a perfect audience for your startup. I would love to have a few meetings with local startup people at places like Berlin for example. But I would feel VERY bad about the experience if I needed to pay money for it. I would love to reciprocate by giving someone a place to stay in Israel, paying for a drink or lunch (or both) or tweeting something good as long as I actually enjoyed it. But paying for it with cash upfront would make me feel like this isn't a genuine human experience and interaction, but more like bought time. I'm not saying that is something everyone feels, it might just be me, but all I can offer you is my personal opinions and experiences.