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Meetup.com

• mindcrime 14y ago
  Yep. Get a paid Meetup.com account and start a "FOO Area Startup Group" meetup, give it all the correct tags, and once a few people join, start doing meetups. They don't necessarily have to be anything fancy, just meeting at a Barnes & Noble or Starbucks for coffee is a good way to get started. Go from there. Practice marketing the group the way you'd market a business. Mine LinkedIn for leads, cold-email people, ask for referrals, all the normal stuff. Edit: Almost forgot... use the "Hackers & Founders" name, and be sure to join the national Hackers & Founders mailing list. When you have meetings, announce them here on HN, use Twitter, G+, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. If there isn't much of an entrepreneurial scene locally, you might not be so much finding one as helping create one. Good luck.