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"... I'm having a hard time connecting with fellow hackers/entrepreneurs or wannabe entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. The mentality of most people is to do a day jo

"... I'm having a hard time connecting with fellow hackers/entrepreneurs or wannabe entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. The mentality of most people is to do a day job if they are programmers. No one in tech has a startup mentality ..." Move ... or startup a startup group in LA to let like minded people clump. We've had one just start in au, melb (artichoke end of the startup world) around twitter. A twitter channel was created, MTUB (Melbourne Twitter Underground Brigade, http://twitter.com/mtub http://twitter.com/mtub ), broadcast to people living in melb and the clumpiness began ... - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/258693 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/258693 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/byte/sets/72157601494320939/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/byte/sets/72157601494320939/ - http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2007/06/mtub1-when-friends-followers-become.html http://benbarren.blogspot.com/2007/06/mtub1-when-friends-fol... I don't think this is an uncommon problem. You just have to know where to look. A bit like at school, the computer lab, chess club or D&D groups. Any chess clubs in LA?

iamyoohoo 19y ago
Tried that - attended a lot of local tech groups as well. However, people seem to have their weekends busy with "stuff" here. That's the bad part of being in LA, there is a lot of "life" here and hence erodes into your time - difficult to get focused people.
- bootload 19y ago
  "... That's the bad part of being in LA, there is a lot of "life" here and hence erodes into your time ..." Sunny weather syndrome. who wants to be a hermit when it's nice day? That's one plus to geography. If you live in a place (higher lats/longs) where it gloomy "in-doors" weather for a part of the year you don't have a choice but to concentrate-hard on things. "... difficult to get focused people ..." Don't really have any answers to this other than Linda Stone's "Attention: The 'Real' Aphrodisiac" talk. You might be able to use your situation to your advantage ~ "http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail739.html http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail739.html

iamyoohoo 19y ago

Tried that - attended a lot of local tech groups as well. However, people seem to have their weekends busy with "stuff" here. That's the bad part of being in LA, there is a lot of "life" here and hence erodes into your time - difficult to get focused people.

bootload 19y ago
"... That's the bad part of being in LA, there is a lot of "life" here and hence erodes into your time ..." Sunny weather syndrome. who wants to be a hermit when it's nice day? That's one plus to geography. If you live in a place (higher lats/longs) where it gloomy "in-doors" weather for a part of the year you don't have a choice but to concentrate-hard on things. "... difficult to get focused people ..." Don't really have any answers to this other than Linda Stone's "Attention: The 'Real' Aphrodisiac" talk. You might be able to use your situation to your advantage ~ "http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail739.html http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail739.html