The only problem is, well, being able to pick the best one. From what I'm gathering, the OP is the not-software business type, and as such, he really doesn't have much of a metric to use to determine whether or not the person he decides on dragging into the whole mess as a co-founder will be up to snuff.
Worse yet, he's in an unfamiliar town, and as such, the trust metric he'll be using for people that he meets in SF is probably going to be out to lunch for a while until he can get his bearings down. This is the most troublesome part for the simple fact that it doesn't matter how much networking you do if you can't willingly place enough trust in the people you meet.
For now, to the OP, do everything: Network with people, kludge a project together, and do business development. Welcome to the club.
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The only problem is, well, being able to pick the best one. From what I'm gathering, the OP is the not-software business type, and as such, he really doesn't have much of a metric to use to determine whether or not the person he decides on dragging into the whole mess as a co-founder will be up to snuff.
Worse yet, he's in an unfamiliar town, and as such, the trust metric he'll be using for people that he meets in SF is probably going to be out to lunch for a while until he can get his bearings down. This is the most troublesome part for the simple fact that it doesn't matter how much networking you do if you can't willingly place enough trust in the people you meet.
For now, to the OP, do everything: Network with people, kludge a project together, and do business development. Welcome to the club.