yr1337

Sounds like your boss is in fact my insufferable neighbor who is a CTO and is word-for-word the guy in your description. I've stopped inviting him back and I think he finally got the memo. Tell him I didn't say hi.

My limit was that after a decade of single-handedly spec'ing, programming, supporting and otherwise being in charge of all internal app development efforts for the $6 billion North-American arm of a $50 billion multinational corp... I still wasn't deemed worthy of the opportunity of a green card, or a salary commensurate with my responsibility and impact on the corp. The day I got my GC by other means and thus was no longer stuck working for them, I gave my 2 weeks, to everyone's surprise and disappointment! And that was with no jobs lined up after that.

I'm in the same boat as you except I haven't started this dating game yet. I know no one in my (admittedly small) network of friends and acquaintances, who is willing to drop everything and create a startup with me. I'm not in the SV so that doesn't help.

I'm trying to come up with a strategy including meetups. But how likely is it that single founders going to these meetings with an idea of their own, are going to give up on it and join someone else? And if someone is going to these meetings without a strongly held idea, then what does that tell me about their intention (free ride?).

The only way I can see this working is if 2 founders meet that have an idea so close that they can see merging them. How likely is that considering constraints of time and location...

I'm starting to find that the hardest part of my startup is going to be the people factor, which I will say is my biggest weakness. I guess it's good that I'm aware of it at least.