Charles Hudson's guest argues the Bay Area's density creates startup networking advantages you can't replicate elsewhere. Visit for a field trip: coffee meetings at Blue Bottle in Jackson Square happen constantly, connecting you with founders in adjacent spaces faster than in spread-out cities like Denver.
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I mean I'm a huge supporter of obviously New York, the ecosystems and emerging ecosystems but it's impossible to not acknowledge how palpable it feels of time effectiveness when you're in the Bay Area. And I would actually encourage founders who are located elsewhere to do kind of like replicate a field trip and go to the Bay Area and try and feel it yourself of sitting in a blue bottle in Jackson Square and just having coffee meetings there. The amount of people that you find who are in your similar lane or in adjacent spaces that are getting coffee at the same time is much higher. Most other spaces I used to live in Denver and in Boulder of course there's like a growing and scrappy startup scene but it's an hour drive from Boulder to Denver which is where most people live and some people aren't hanging around in the coffee shops as much as they are within Jackson Square or even the Kauhala like Pack Heights where people live.