Dude, you don't have to move to SF. LA has a good startup scene and high-end engineering talent pool from Caltech/USC/UCLA, plus design/marketing/UX/etc people

Dude, you don't have to move to SF. LA has a good startup scene and high-end engineering talent pool from Caltech/USC/UCLA, plus design/marketing/UX/etc people from the entertainment industry. There are no serious hurdles to founding a consumer internet startup here. At startupschool, I met a bunch of people from the bay area, but none of them were interested in founding a new company. They were either already founders (looking for employees/funding/revenue), or, pretty happily working for a large company like GOOG/NVDA/AAPL/etc and not quite ready to leave. The people I found most interesting as future potential cofounders, were from other cities with "weaker" tech/startup scenes.