As long as you can consistently get enough bag holders through the door for your buddies to cash out with a tidy profit before everything peters out, they won't care that you're a serial flim-flam man. An uncomfortably large amount of alleged VC business acumen in tech is just being a gifted corporate hypeman without that many scrouples.

Anyway, I don't blame you for being skeptical, the Flow Monorail is really more of a Shelbyville idea...