We are in a strange place. We're very non-scene even in London. We've raised our seed (GBP 55k) entirely from our active users who were very enthusiastic about

We are in a strange place. We're very non-scene even in London. We've raised our seed (GBP 55k) entirely from our active users who were very enthusiastic about supporting us. We have a strong growth plan from the 2nd level network of those same users, people who are waiting to use our product and we can't grow fast enough. All of this is non-scene, under the radar if you will. It already feels like things are going faster than we'd like, a good problem, but we do know that we will need proper investment in the future and a US presence. We'll likely still be based in London, but we know that we'll need basic stuff in the USA too. Hence, before those problems arrive the purpose of the trip is: 1) To build some VC contacts so that we can start plotting our growth chart in front of them and hopefully have them as investors when that time comes. 2) To make sense of how SF works with a view to understanding where to base and why, should we need to move on that sooner rather than later. Not to say it will be SF, it could be Chicago. But I know Chicago as a town already, and I know zip about San Francisco. Being so non-scene I also don't have a network or address book in which I can call someone up and say, "Hey, throw some doors open, and help show me around, and which of these social things should I go to?". So we're coming in quite cold, which is why LDN2SFO appealed to us... but we've given ourselves an extra week to get a deeper understanding and perhaps build some relationships that could be mutually beneficial in the future. In some respects the Berlin, London, Barcelona startup scenes have, by necessity, already documented this stuff quite well. But San Francisco seems so large and established that there's a lack of a curated "The SF startup scene guide". At least, I couldn't find one that seemed current. And as my limited network is simply "I am a user on HN", and this is the best place to ask... I asked here.