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America's Most Ambitious Cities

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First: The report uses metro area as unit.

Below is the simple list from high to low:

Atlanta, Phoenix, Riverside, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Washington DC

Here is the summary without going through 11 pages.

Definition of the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity : "the percent of individuals (ages twenty to sixty-four) who do not own a business in the first survey month that start a business in the following month with fifteen or more hours worked per week."

The 10 metro area by Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity from high to low.

Atlanta, Georgia: Population: 5,376,285 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .74%

Phoenix, Arizona Population: 4,281,899. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .55%

Riverside, California Population: 4,115,871. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .52%

Los Angeles, California Population: 12,872,808. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .51%

Miami, Florida Population: 5,414,772. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .50%

New York, New York Population: 19,006,798. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .45%

San Francisco, California Population: 4,274,531. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .42%

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas Population: 6,300,006. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .42%

Houston, Texas Population: 5,728,143. 2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .34%

Washington, D.C. Population: 5,358,130.2008 Kauffman Foundation Index of Entrepreneurial Activity: .30%

Go Atlanta! heh thanks

I didn't expect Atlanta to be number one on the list. I guess I shouldn't complain about living in Atlanta and not the Valley. Though these numbers may be skewed by non-tech start-ups.

Most new businesses aren't tech startups.

I'm not sure it took ten pages to say that. And nearly all the text was describing the numbers ("This number is bigger than the one before it. But brace yourself: the next number will be even bigger.")

Even worse, it's one of those stupid slideshows that loads a new page every few seconds, even when you're not looking. When I looked at it, it was halfway through the list of "states with highest alcohol and tobacco taxes".

Yeah, I gave up quickly once I saw what they were doing. Anyone want to take the time and post a simple list here and what the general methodology was?</lazy>

The methodology was business started per 100,000 people. They range from about 300 to 700.

I'm not understanding how this metric is useful. If I start a business and it goes bust within three months, and then I start another one, do I get counted twice?

Why, that sounds awfully ambitious!

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