As I mentioned in the posts comments, one thing the valley has that many cities don't is a completely different perspective on failure. In the valley, if you don't have a successful exit on your startup, no one jumps on you in a bad way. Everyone understands the challenge and knows you learned from it. First thing people say are, "So, what's next?".

This allows people to try things more and take risk. Something that our Michigan and Detroit culture don't have built into our makeup. It's definitely changing and sites like GrowDetroit and their community are making big strides in changing this mentality.