Which is alright. I remember the huge parties in the first dot com boom, when I met a guy who answered the question "what do you do?" with "I work with startups". "What do you do for them?" "Everything". Interestingly, people at these parties weren't especially interested in meeting developers.
The culture seems very different now. For starters, people don't waste nearly as much money on big parties, and the value of technical skills seems to have risen dramatically... well, it was always useful, but now people actually understand that value.
I would figure step 1 of making it is to pursue an idea and create a minimum viable product. If you have programming ability, you (along with a couple of friends, I would hope) will have something to pitch. Otherwise, all you can do is say vague things like "I work with startups".