"I don't really want to just start going round telling everyone my idea..." Ideas are cheap, start building something. It'll help you recruit people and you'll

"I don't really want to just start going round telling everyone my idea..." Ideas are cheap, start building something. It'll help you recruit people and you'll almost certainly need something tangible to get funding. If events are that lacking in the place you live, chances are that you need to move. If your hometown doesn't already have a lively ecosystem, it's probably going to be very difficult to recruit employees or make sales from there.