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Top 10 Tech Cities snapshots take a deeper dive into the 10 hottest tech markets, highlighting:
Top tenants and their percentage of tech absorption
Projects under construction and key investment sales
Key market indicators
Click below for more information on each Top Tech 10 Tech Market.
1. Silicon Valley
Access to an incomparably deep talent pool, venture capital community, and the ready acceptance of newcomers...
2. San Francisco
The highest concentrations of tech companies in the world today - from new venture capital-backed start-ups to giants like Google and Facebook...
3. Washington DC Metro
70% of internet traffic runs through Northern Virginia. 55 of the world’s 500 fastest growing cybersecurity companies are headquartered in the region...
4. Boston/Cambridge
Exposure to academia, government funding, industry, and international communities led to a “big bang” – creating Boston’s pool of entrepreneurial talent...
5. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
Innovative startups, corporate headquarters and technology centers located in RTP. Recognized as a top 10 location for entrepreneurs, Millennials, and families...
6. Seattle
Both start-ups and established players occupy but Amazon takes up 20% of the CBD’s office space...
7. Austin
Progressive and entrepreneurial, Austin caters to all businesses, especially tech-related companies. Home values are significantly lower than competing markets...
8. Denver/ Boulder
Boasts a very well-educated workforce — more than 43% have a bachelor’s degree or higher...
9. San Diego
Military and defense contractors contribute to growing cybersecurity, aerospace, software, and mobile technology industries...
10. Madison, Wisconsin
A small tech hotspot because of home-grown talent– from Epic Systems, a developer and provider of healthcare software, to a variety of gaming software firms...
Top 10 Tech Cities snapshots take a deeper dive into the 10 hottest tech markets, highlighting:
Top tenants and their percentage of tech absorption
Projects under construction and key investment sales
Key market indicators
Click below for more information on each Top Tech 10 Tech Market.
1. Silicon Valley
Access to an incomparably deep talent pool, venture capital community, and the ready acceptance of newcomers...
2. San Francisco
The highest concentrations of tech companies in the world today - from new venture capital-backed start-ups to giants like Google and Facebook...
3. Washington DC Metro
70% of internet traffic runs through Northern Virginia. 55 of the world’s 500 fastest growing cybersecurity companies are headquartered in the region...
4. Boston/Cambridge
Exposure to academia, government funding, industry, and international communities led to a “big bang” – creating Boston’s pool of entrepreneurial talent...
5. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill
Innovative startups, corporate headquarters and technology centers located in RTP. Recognized as a top 10 location for entrepreneurs, Millennials, and families...
6. Seattle
Both start-ups and established players occupy but Amazon takes up 20% of the CBD’s office space...
7. Austin
Progressive and entrepreneurial, Austin caters to all businesses, especially tech-related companies. Home values are significantly lower than competing markets...
8. Denver/ Boulder
Boasts a very well-educated workforce — more than 43% have a bachelor’s degree or higher...
9. San Diego
Military and defense contractors contribute to growing cybersecurity, aerospace, software, and mobile technology industries...
10. Madison, Wisconsin
A small tech hotspot because of home-grown talent– from Epic Systems, a developer and provider of healthcare software, to a variety of gaming software firms...
How is Los Angeles and "Silicon Beach" not on this list? It's almost as if they conveniently forgot about it.
I think Boulder might be bigger for tech than Denver. Either way, I'm in the tech industry in Denver and I'm not impressed by people's work ethic out here. It's also way too small of a tech market for a city of it's size and not very diverse.
Austin on the other hand is much more impressive for a city of it's size, IMHO.
I think Boulder might be bigger for tech than Denver. Either way, I'm in the tech industry in Denver and I'm not impressed by people's work ethic out here. It's also way too small of a tech market for a city of it's size and not very diverse.
I think Boulder would be counted as Denver since it's within the same metro area.
I wonder where Atlanta ranks.
EDIT: I should have read the article first. I see Atlanta is at #11.
I think Boulder would be counted as Denver since it's within the same metro area.
I wonder where Atlanta ranks.
EDIT: I should have read the article first. I see Atlanta is at #11.
That I get but there is a lot more tech / app companies stretching from Broomfield on out to Boulder than Denver downtown by itself. A lot more energy and consulting firms in downtown (and way too many brand new apartment buildings.)
Where did you see ATL at number 11? I can only see 10 when I click into it.
Thanks for that link for the download. At first glance, the reporting is already bothering me:
There are some major holes in that ranking. For instance, Boston/Cambridge, Denver/Boulder, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Minneapolis/St. Paul are listed in all surveys as the same metro area for combined statistics.
However, San Francisco and Oakland as well as L.A. and Orange County are broken up as separate markets even though they are in the same metro areas (heck, San Francisco and San Jose are listed as separate markets, another weird mistake). And San Mateo is just a city in the metro area located between San Jose and San Francisco. I guess San Mateo is where the dividing line is?
If you combine these two markets (like they should be) both Los Angeles and San Francisco would be much higher as a result. So the reporting in my opinion doesn't check out like they should.
Startups are one factor out of several. This seems to confuse some people. Companies that employ 50,000 local people in high-value jobs (programming etc.) also have a wee bit of a role.
Without opening the link, my impression is it's related to leased space only (that's what brokerages count, go figure). The really huge companies that mostly own their own space might not be counted.
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