HN,<p>I created this analysis to get another view of entrepreneurial activity in the US.<p>On a tech note, these graphs were created with Protovis, a JS toolkit discussed recently here: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808334" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1808334</a> Since Protovis and IE don't yet work well together (IE9 may change that), the page degrades for IE users to show PNGs instead of the JS SVGs.<p>The inspiration for this visualization came from the Stanford Visualization Group's choropleth here: <a href="http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/choropleth.html" rel="nofollow">http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ex/choropleth.html</a><p>I would appreciate comments and feedback! Thank you.
As a Las Vegas entrepreneur I'm surprised to see Nevada so highly ranked. I knew Zappos had done a lot to legitimize Vegas as a potential location for startups, but I still don't see too much of a startup community in general here.<p>Perhaps we're getting some residual fundraising benefits being sandwiched between CA and CO.
Here's another ranking of the best states to do business in. (Not trying to trump your website, but just giving some more resources for folks!)<p><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/37554006/" rel="nofollow">http://www.cnbc.com/id/37554006/</a>