I’m a London-based developer and startup founder. I’ve come to the San Francisco Bay Area to find Silicon Valley.

I flew in yesterday, found my hotel via BART and a MUNI bus. I’m close to Union Square, at the heart of SF.

My plan is to hit as many free networking events as possible. The big one is the LobbyCon at the Web 2.0 Summit. The lobby of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, is ground zero for people without the $3,900 for a ticket to the full summit. I did the same thing at the Web 2.0 Expo Europe in Berlin in October and met some great people.

Today it’s the Mobile 2.0 event. The ticket price has kept me away thus far, but I’m heading down there now to network at the reception.

Before I arrived I asked some people in my London network for Bay Area contacts. I just posted a LinkedIn question to try to elicit other suggestions from my network and the wider LinkedIn community.