Agreed, although I find a big disconnect between what I'm genuinely interested in and the start-up scene here in London/Europe and turned down a few startup offers ultimately for that reason. May be naive but with a visa but there is generally much more exciting opportunity (purely around startups) in US and SV in general - and the visa is what I'm missing and grad school would deliver.
Oh, ok. Have you reached out to any US-based startups that you are interested in? Perhaps you can convince them they need a remote European team to help them expand or give them more off-hours support from a different time zone.
Going back to the idea of the Bay Area (which is somewhere I believe I will end up somehow), will it help me a lot to be in the country? Could anyone manage to get anything done bombing it to the valley on a tourist visa? What would you do if you were in my situation?
Apologies for the long post, it's a situation that I'm really questioning and struggling to answer. The tuned-in wisdom of you guys on HN would help a lot!
Hey! Haven't used blender per se but is very similar to what I have used, and it's free. Shoot me an email at me@jamesstirrat.com and let's get started.