When evaluating the merits of the next Big Thing™, sometimes one needs to get an expert opinion, or to find a partner who&#x27;s deeply entrenched in a specific vertical or skill. Not a co-founder, mind you; a consulting partner or simply a consultant in the purest form of the word.<p>If I was looking to find someone versed in, say, event planning, I might visit &#x2F;r&#x2F;EventPlanners as a first go. Possibly see if there&#x27;s an SO site where such topics are discussed. Then what? Where else would you start looking? When you&#x27;ve found someone whose brain you&#x27;d like to pick, how do you broach that topic?<p>There are a lot of great ideas floating around here in this community, and I think knowing how to find validation avenues or how to find subject matter experts (especially when the topic is too specific for a gently-marketed MVP) would be a great help for those of us stuck on that classic trap: <i>you don&#x27;t know what you don&#x27;t know</i>.<p>So how do you find people who know?
Ask HN: How do you find experts?