If we're seriously going to ask "The next Silicon Vallley?" then it's worth asking if Boston, NYC, etc would look all that different.<p>In fact, I would gander that there must be metropolitan areas of the world that have more startups per square mile/km.<p>Israel is 20,000km/sq<p>NYC is 1,200 km/sq (metro area 30,670 km/sq, but we can discount a lot of it if we're just looking for a concentration)<p>Boston metro area is 12,000km/sq<p>I'd imagine the "concentration" is higher in these two cities, but maybe not. Does anyone have any data?<p><i>EDIT:</i> boston.areastartups.com claims that Boston has 1511 startups. This map lists 628.
The real metric is density of funding. I don't just mean potential funds, but frequent funding of startups.<p>For example, Utah has a pretty high concentration (per capita) of startups, but investors are extremely risk averse. I've heard countless tales of startups having difficulty getting local funding and looking elsewhere.
The city name is obscured by all the red markers; the highest concentration is in and around Tel Aviv.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv</a>
In our floor alone, there are 4 startups including ours (reblaze.com), and they are all missing.<p>In our street there are dozens, and only one appears.<p>I just added ours, but viewers shall realize there are (many) more.