The Best Places For Doing Business in America 2005 – Boise, ID one of the best

We examined 274 population centers, looking for job creation and other signs that businesses are thriving. Here’s what we found.

The economies of most big cities are idling. The real entrepreneurial hotbeds are now on the periphery — where low costs make it possible to thrive in a tough global economy.

The new economy didn’t disappear. It changed addresses.

The dynamic, job-generating information-technology and service companies that characterized the boom of the 1990s are still around. But it’s getting harder to find them in the usual high-tech clusters like Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin. Instead, five years after the bubble burst and a year or so into an economic recovery, those same kinds of companies are thriving in places like Reno, Nev., Boise, Idaho, and Naples, Fla. — cities that were once mere specks on the new-economy map.

From: Inc. Magazine, May 2005 | Page 93 By: Joel Kotkin

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