[dstein]

I just want to point out there seems to be a lot of Winklevoss-types looking Zuckerburg-types these days, basically everywhere. I thought this trend would die down after "The Social Network" came out, but in fact there seems to be even more now. There are so many startups these days precisely because developers have realized they don't need business-people, venture capital, or any of that overhead to grow a business... and this is primarily what's different about today's tech boom/bubble.

If your business plan is solid enough you would probably need to prove it, by putting the plan onto paper and begin shopping it around to the VC's and angel investors in SF. You'd need to show a developer that your idea is solid enough that you can obtain funding otherwise I can't think of any reason a developer would join a startup from square one at >50% dilution rather than start his own project.