++ "move to Silicon Valley." The vibe here is really amazing.
Two years ago we made the move to Silicon Valley and I haven't regretted it for a minute. Startups are in the air and water here. I've met a number of people that I'd consider co-Founder material. Networking opportunities abound. In the last 6 months I've gone to startup school, started the Hackers and Founders Meetup that Isaac linked to above, and I'm going to DjangoCon in 3 weeks.
If you look in Meetup.com, there's dozens of meetups that happen for different technologies, entrepreneurship groups, startup groups, etc... It's actually hard to avoid programmers in this town.
Isaac's right. Get a job at Yahoo/Google/Facebook/YC Startup and work for a year or two, make friends, save up some money and then make the leap with your new friends into the startup world. At least that's what a lot of other people are doing around here.
If you look in Meetup.com, there's dozens of meetups that happen for different technologies, entrepreneurship groups, startup groups, etc... It's actually hard to avoid programmers in this town.
Isaac's right. Get a job at Yahoo/Google/Facebook/YC Startup and work for a year or two, make friends, save up some money and then make the leap with your new friends into the startup world. At least that's what a lot of other people are doing around here.