Geography (and geographic thinking) in BusinessWeek
Where should you start your startup? San Fran? Boston? Or maybe a small town? GIS Planning (gee, they’ve been in the news, in mainstream media quite a bit lately!) ran the numbers and the small town may be just as favorable. See also: a slide show of a top small city for startups in each state. Here in Massachusetts, they picked Cambridge. Yeh, ok… Redlands certainly played out for one startup, eh?
Money quote from BizWeek article:
In fact, places like Boulder, Colo., (population 91,000) and Fairfax, Va., (23,000) are just as favorable for startups as San Francisco (733,000) and New York (8.2 million), according to research conducted for BusinessWeek by GIS Planning, a San Francisco-based geographic data firm that helps companies select optimal sites via its online tool ZoomProspector.
