Silicon Valley, New York and Toronto are North America's Top 3 Start Up Hubs (better, compare)

[18Montclair]

Very pleased to see Los Angeles in the Top 10.

World
Rank 2012
1 Silicon Valley
2 New York
4 Toronto
6 Los Angeles
13 Seattle
15 Chicago
16 Vancouver
18 Boston
19 Austin
24 Washington DC
25 Montreal

Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World’s Top Tech Hubs Stack Up | TechCrunch

[StuddedLeather]

Nice!

Glad to see Brooklyn mentioned and not just Manhattan

[OyCrumbler]

Interesting, but the report doesn't tell you scale--which is important since some of the drop-offs from one place to the next is fairly steep.

[NYMTman]

It's probably a steep drop off from Silicon Valley to everyone else, in per capita terms.

[NYMTman]

Originally Posted by 18Montclair

Very pleased to see Los Angeles in the Top 10.

World
Rank 2012
1 Silicon Valley
2 New York
4 Toronto
6 Los Angeles
13 Seattle
15 Chicago
16 Vancouver
18 Boston
19 Austin
24 Washington DC
25 Montreal

Silicon Valley, London, NYC: Startup Genome Data Reveals How The World’s Top Tech Hubs Stack Up | TechCrunch

I'm in software, and I see more and more promising startups in Los Angeles. LA is within a day's drive of Silicon Valley which helps.

[rah]

Not too surprising.

And just to clarify, they described Silicon Valley as
"San Francisco, Palo Alto, San Jose, Oakland", so it seems like they're using the whole Bay Area CSA as their measurement. Which makes sense, as "silicon valley" does extend beyond the SJ MSA border. But it looks like they're including areas beyond the borders of Silicon Valley (SF, Oakland), so it seems they should have just said "Bay Area" instead.

edit: though much of silicon valley are suburbs of SF/Oakland, just like they are suburbs of SJ, so i guess you could consider SF/Oakland themselves as part of greater silicon valley or something (and SF actually does have some technology and tons of internet stuff itself, and is adding more quickly). The term is sometimes used to just refer to the Bay's tech industry as well, so I guess saying Silicon Valley could make sense. But Bay Area still sounds better.

[StuddedLeather]

Found this video about some of the Brooklyn start-ups. . . Pretty cool.

Made In Brooklyn on Vimeo