[msutherl]

How to get hired by the startup that you want to work for:

   1. Figure out what you think is the most important thing 
      to be doing in the world right now.
   2. Learn the requisite skills to do it.
   3. Find somebody who's doing it already and write a carefully 
      crafted, enthusiastic email explaining why you think what 
      they are doing is important and why you are uniquely suited 
      to be part of it.
   4. Show some evidence (produced in step 2).

If you don't know what you think is the most important thing to be doing in the world right now, then somebody else is deciding for you.