You Need to be in San Francisco

I understand what you are saying, please understand that when trying to get a picture of each high tech hub back from Europe we tend to view only things that sign, which may or may not be gold in the end.

My perception as to what Austin is, was SxSW and Gowalla. Compared to the cities mentioned these two alone where not adequate enough to put Austin in my radar... I never heard (up to today) of a great VC-er/blogger, a great accelerator program or something cool starting out from Austin...

Don't get me wrong, Austin may be great, may be awesome, it just lacks a few points in the communication dept...