If you decide where the entrepreneurial hot spots are by polling your site visitors, what you get is a lot of data about where people wish they were.<p>The fact is, practically all startups need investors. Entrepreneurship means more than web/software startups, of course, but for web/software startups, the limiting reagent is investors with expertise and connections in that area. And they are highly concentrated in Silicon Valley.<p>It doesn't matter how vibrant a place seems if it is missing the specific type of expertise you need. So while Brazil, for example, may be a fine place for some forms of entrepreneurship, it will have the same drawback as a home for new tech startups that Silicon Valley would for, say, new fashion labels.
Do unsupported statements seem more plausible when phrased as questions?<p>Will Minneapolis become the next hot spot for all-night heroin parties?<p>Film at 11.
<i>If I had to make one choice, Brazil.</i><p>California is about one generation away from being Brazil. At any rate, anyone with an interest in South America knows that the best bet is Uruguay. Check out the flag for starters:<p><a href="http://www.newspapercountry.com/Uruguay.png" rel="nofollow">http://www.newspapercountry.com/Uruguay.png</a>