Daily Blog: BusinessWeek

Recently, BusinessWeek developed a list of the best small cities for starting a business:

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/03/0327_smallcity_startups/index.htm

Though the Center for Building Community might disagree with BusinessWeek's definition of a small city, there is no doubt that entrepreneurs are increasingly looking to new places to start businesses.

And why not? As the article notes, "The choices took into account 11 factors that shape a city's entrepreneurial climate, from the education level of the workforce to the amount of venture-capital investment to the number of startups."

Increasingly, startups are finding a home in mid-sized cities. Thanks to technology, mid-sized cities can now compete with New York and Chicago. But New York and Chicago can't compete with mid-sized cities in areas like community and quality of life.