Your story is wonderfully illustrative, in-depth, and inspirational. Thank you for taking the time to share it.
For what it's worth, I really like your writing style. I hope to see much more of it!
For founders, I am very responsive over email. If you have specific questions some me some electronic mail.
If you want to build a company but don't know where to start I recommend signing up for Startup School. https://blog.ycombinator.com/onlineclass/
Unrelated to this post, but related to dinosaurs if you like dinosaurs and want to dig some up this summer with me get in touch. I'm inviting roughly 100 people. We found a triceratops two years ago. It's been in the ground for over 65 million years.
This article just steered me more towards SF instead of Seattle because it answered a lot of my questions.
While I'm not a very educated in startups, this was a pleasant read and I loved the 'straight to the point' approach for discussing individual experiences.