OKAY, I've re-done the system with a secure form, and re-posted to this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3779070

The new form is at https://docs.google.com/a/foomojo.com/spreadsheet/viewform?f...

and the results will be non-editable at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj6s1BtH3XlsdGZ...

Thought this would be a fun experiment, and help us all by growing our professional networks. I'm an EIR at Sequoia Capital, will connect to anyone on that list, and am happy to meet or chat on the phone with any questions you may have about Sequoia or the Silicon Valley VC world in general.

I don't think putting down email is a good idea, you'll end up getting spammed by headhunters directly.

I'm going to seed the list with a honeypot email and publicly shame anyone who spams the list. Unfortunately, you need the email to make the connection on LinkedIn.

REALLY? Someone deleted all the rows?? Guess I shouldn't be surprised. Hang on while I put together a more secure system.

As a data point, before this experiment I had 272 connections on LinkedIn. I'll update later with the "after" number.

Sounds good. Thanks for putting this together!

Awesome. Thanks for doing this