"I agree completely that getting on board with someone you don't know well is a bad idea."

Eh I kind of disagree about this.

I ended up working on a project through a friend of a friend. A guy was doing some work on his own and needed some pro-bono help for his project. We have very different personalities but our skills complemented one another perfectly. We ended up moving out to the Bay Area together to work on our own projects. A year later, we've meshed extremely well given some tough circumstances.

There's absolutely no way we would've met back in Uni, as we frequented different circles.