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What's the best way to get started?

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I've never been in a startup before, but I'm interested in starting or joining one. I literally don't know who to talk to. How do you make contacts with other developers, angels, VCs, etc?

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By doing just what you're doing. Ask questions, learn, introduce yourself. Read blogs that talk about the things you're interested in, leave comments, become acquainted with the people in your industry.

That's how I got to where I am now, finding local companies who do marketing and design, leave comments on their blogs and always know how to stay in touch.

Tell us a bit more about what you can do - maybe someone here will be interested.

I live in Austin, TX. I'm young-ish (26), team lead of 10 engineers on several shipped products. I've written production code: linux kernel C, userspace C, python, ruby, win32 c++, java. I've rewritten the build system of a 500k LoC C project. I've maintained a Linux From Scratch cross compiling distro. I'm in chapter 4 of SICP, so I'm starting to become proficient in Scheme, and I've caught the lisp bug.

I'm currently working in the Storage (SCSI) industry. At a previous job, I wrote shipping code for medical image processing.

How's the startup scene in Austin?

I wish I knew. :-)

I've heard it's fairly good though. Probably 3rd in the country behind the valley and Boston.

With that kind of experience you should be able to sell yourself. Def. pitch yourself around, get introduced to people. Never stop asking how you can be of assistance even if it's emailing someone to a blog entry that may help their business process. Sometimes giving away business is the best way to get business.

How can we get in touch with you ?

You don't have any contact info on your profile page.

Any idea the direction you want to head? Or what are you into? Want to stay with Image design or storage systems?

I don't really care that much about which industry I'm in. I just want to make successful, quality products.

I'm kind of interested in fixing the morass that is web-app technologies. The current technology stack of SQL + server side language + html + javascript + CSS sucks. There are impedance mismatches between each of those, and the scalability is not really convenient.

visit http://programmermeetdesigner.com/

this is one of the best resourceful website/community , post your profile there - if you are looking for entrepreneur or other techies then u can visit their profile and postings to comment and contact them.

I have posted my profile there under same user name "ideas101" - contact me there for more ideas and details.

Good Luck.

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