It really all starts with you. You need to build up a little snowball effect. Pick something you feel that is impressive & enjoyable & work on it for a while (

It really all starts with you. You need to build up a little snowball effect. Pick something you feel that is impressive & enjoyable & work on it for a while (set a deadline of a few weeks for a MVP) Get your cool projects working on the web & gather links together, create a portfolio of your most interesting work, perhaps start a blog. Go to some meetups, travel if you have to. Stay longer than the 'event' to chat with other folks - ask what they are working on. If you can afford, pick a couple of new startups that you think are cool & offer your time/help to them. Within a matter of months you have projects created & curated, they're visible to those you connect with. Putting yourself in these situations leads to serendipitous moments that would be impossible to engineer. You have the main thing - the ability. People are interested in what you do with that & where you take it!