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This is how you build a tech community

This is the type of tech center that government officials dream about building.

You can’t help being overwhelmed by the natural beauty and Swiss-village-like charm of Boulder, Colorado. With a population of just under 99,000, you wouldn’t expect it to be the home of a Silicon Valley-style tech center complete with hundreds of Internet and software startups.

I was certainly impressed with the vibrancy of its tech community when I visited Boulder in March 2010. The local cafés were as much a beehive of entrepreneurial activity as those San Francisco or Palo Alto, and the culture of risk-taking and information-sharing was very similar. In April of that year, I wrote a feature story http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2010-04-22/why-boulder-is-americas-best-town-for-startupsbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice for BusinessWeek in which I outlined why Boulder is "America’s best town for startups."

"Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City." http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1118441540/startuprev-20

Vivek Wadhwa

Full Story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-innovations/this-is-how-you-build-a-tech-community/2012/09/24/d6b8c0c8-0661-11e2-a10c-fa5a255a9258_story.html?hpid=z12

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