I moved to San Francisco without knowing a soul. I started going to a Steelers bar every Sunday during football season and it's where I met my first new group of friends. It was a lot easier when everyone around me was talking about the team/game.
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Even though I've been at it for a couple years, I'm confident a tech-focused post from me would be a bit underwhelming.
Ex. I was at an old client's office catching up and a potential user (large agency) fell into the discussion and expressed an interest in my application. He liked it but wanted to see a few additional metrics, that while stored in the database, were not available in the view. I Jumped on a nearby laptop and added it for him in 5min.
His agency is currently in the beta. (probably would've still joined without things going down this way but you get the point)
Friendly Advice: If I was to seriously be evaluating this as a potential CTO, I would want my equity stake to be equal to that of you and your partner.
5%-10% to the person doing all the heavy, technical lifting is very low.
During this "crackdown campaign" Google has been on, I have sat in on meetings at large clients where they've pulled sites that are supposedly link farms (according to google) and put together an ad buy on behalf of competitors meant to cause these penalties to be levied and WMT messages to be sent.
In my opinion its more of a calling that can't be ignored and there are far more pros than the possibility of becoming "rich".
Buy KW rich domains and pay some copywriter to crank out 4-5 pages?! Are you serious?
Twitter has no SEO Value?...just so you know...the SE's came out and said that authoritative tweets absolutely have value....While they don't pass "juice", they can help you in the SERPs
I'd hold off on that hug if I were you...