+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!

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.