Ask HN: Landing a job with a startup in the valley

I am based off India. I am a Ruby and Rails hacker and a good one in that. I have published a couple of open source gems and have been programming professionally for over 10 years. I have worked with a wide variety of programming languages like Java, C#, Python and Rails. I have been a champion of open source right from the early days of my career. I have worked with corporates and have also run my own consulting business. I am a language geek and pride myself on the ability to pick up a new language/technology in a matter of weeks. I write technical blogs and conduct Rails workshops in my city. I am quite active in local technology forums and give talks on technologies such as Rails, Backbone.js, Node.js, MongoDB and whatever is in vogue and catches my fancy.

I would like to move to the US and work in the valley for a funded and promising startup. There seems to be a lot of action in the valley around startups and technology in general. I feel that I am missing out on all the action sitting in India.

I know that I have been intentionally vague and have used a temporary profile to post this. I wanted an honest feedback on the feasibility of finding a job in the valley as an Indian and the realities of moving there. I have read a whole bunch of articles and posts on the immigration woes. I wanted to know if there are any startups who have successfully employed Indians and have had them move to the valley. Also I wanted to find out if any immigrant Indians who have had experience moving to the valley and working for a startup. I know that the other route is to work for some soulless three letter indian company and have the H1B sponsored. But I cannot put up with their bureaucracy and I most definitely do not want to work for a bank.