Entrepreneurship - is not a skill, it's a mindset and lifestyle... (Mike, September, 2015)
Mike was thinking about where else he would do his StartUp if it's not San Francisco, Bay Area?!?!, well recommended place, but also cliché
Indeed, depending on your business niche the location of the startup might be critically important. As Reid Hoffman mentioned on his "How to be a great founder" lecture speech at Stanford
NYC - General Assembly, Hinge, giphy, codecademy, reverse, electric objects, weWork
Boston - RunKeeper, PowerInbox, FlightCar, HubSpot, Memrise, TripAdvisor, Leaf
LA - UCode, Washio, ZipRecruiter, SnapChat, ServiceTitan, eHarmony, Hulu
Austin - Cloud66, Mattr, Everfest, AppSumo, Burpy, Clarify
Boulder - Gnip, TeamSnap, Trada, SurveyGizmo, TechStars, Rally,
Chicago: Charlie, Fandium, Groupon, SnapSheet, SpotHero, Orbits, Cars.com
Seattle - Zulily, Swype, Apptio, PopCap, Zillow, DocuSign, Adaptive Biotechnologies
SF Bay Area - Come on, really? think about top -10 apps you ever used, most likely 7 out of 10 made in SF Bay Area ;)
Bonus: here is the list of cities/countries around the world where you should go for startup
Tel Aviv, Singapore, Dublin, San Paulo
There is huge opportunities for people to start a tech StartUp business, because in all countries are these cities coming from government is supporting tech as a PRIORITY part of economics.
London, Berlin, Tallinn
Europe is traditionally good at doing great things, especially in IoT and Hardware business, check the kickstarter, you will see how much hardware/IoT campaigns are from Europe, especially from London (I think it's correlating with generally more conservative approach of people about things they do; things they can see and touch :) As well as lot of creativity works around, more artistic
Moscow, Kiev, Minsk
Former soviet republics were always in Tech, another good example of traditionally strong math and fundamental science schools. (keep on mind that Soviet Union was the only country who was able to compete with USA in Space and Rocket Science)
Canada
Canada, is a good mix of Technology, absolutely amazing UX and creative thinking (want to give a clear example of it, IMAX was invented by Canadians, sorry US fellas :) not you), non-standard or solutions for standard problems (ability to think out of the box, good design thinking schools in Canada)
Sydney
Another good example of traditionally good mechanical and electrical engineering (I guess UK heritage) makes Australians good at IoT/hardware and design thinking (see remark about Europe)
Don't be surprise that there are no Tokyo, Beijing, Mumbai or Seoul in the list. Apparently, there are lot of successful startups over there, but the media presence of those cities isn't really transparent
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