[lgleason]

This is a semi serious answer but...

If we were not in the middle of COVID I would say to take a trip to Atlanta. In the Atlanta startup community there is no shortage of MBA and marketing types with lots of ideas that are just looking for a developer who is willing to work for next to nothing and equity that is much smaller than it should be.

Of course all of these business types will tell you about how they are the tech visionaries. They dominate most of the big startup events in that town that are supposed to be tech focused and will write countless marketing pieces telling you why their next co-working space makes Atlanta the "Silicon Valley of the East". In reality, a former tech reporter for the Atlanta Business Chronicle more accurately called Atlanta the Bangalore of the South since many larger tech groups will open offices here to try to reduce costs.

Don't get me wrong with Atlanta, it is a great place to live from a standpoint of having a lower cost of living compared with what you can get for a salary, especially if you are able to work for a west coast company that pays well. There are also other cities with a similar dynamic.

My point is that there are many ways to find it, but be careful because you may be trading one set of problems for another.

[dublin]

FWIW, though I love and grew up in Austin, it an extremely dysfunctional startup/VC community, so unless you just have to have the cool factor, find almost anyplace else to start your company - real estate will be lots cheaper, too, and you might even have a functioning city government. As I said, I love it here, but will be leaving before too much longer, as it's going all the wrong ways, esp. w.r.t. startup culture.

[paul_f]

The non-technical entrepreneur-MBA types tend to over-value their business "ideas" and want 2/3 of the company. Because it was "their idea". Be careful.