Well, here they are, the top 50 hot spots for high-tech biz:1. Austin/San Marcos, TX
2. San Antonio, TX
3. Salt Lake City
4. Fort Worth/Arlington, TX
5. Orlando, FL
6. Middlesex/Somerset/Hunterdon, NJ
7. Atlanta
8. Dallas
9. Ralieigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC
10. Houston
11. Monmouth/Ocean, NJ
12. Seattle/Bellevue/Everett, WA
13. San Jose, CA
14. Las Vegas
15. Denver
16. San Francisco
17. Washington, DC/MD/VA/WV
18. Orange County, CA
19. Fort Lauderdale, FL
20. Phoenix/Mesa, AZ
21. Sacramento, CA
22. Norfolk/Virginia Beach/Newport News, VA
23. Baltimore, MD
24. San Diego
25. Portland/Vancouver, OR/WA
26. West Palm Beach/Boca Raton, FL
27. Miami
28. Oakland, CA
29. Riverside/San Bernardino, CA
30. Tampa/St. Petersburg/Clearwater, FL
31. Memphis, TN
32. New York City
33. Columbus, OH
34. Jacksonville, FL
35. Bergen/Passaic, New Jersey
36. Boston, MA/NH
37. Charlotte/Gastonia/Rock Hill, NC/SC
38. Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA
39. Nashville, TN
40. Minneapolis/St.Paul, MN/WI
41. Newark, NJ
42. Chicago
43. Rochester, NY
44. Kansas City, MO/KS
45. Cincinnati, OH/KY/IN
46. Detroit
47. Philadelphia, PA/NJ
48. Greensboro/Winston/Salem/High Point, NC
49. Hartford, CT
50. Cleveland/Lorain/Elyria, OH
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, (404) 586-8456, hgant@macoc.com
Bay Area Technology Alliance, mbjornestad@barta.org, www.barta.org
City of Las Vegas, (702) 229-6551, obd@ci.las-vegas.nv.us
Duffey Communications, (404) 266-2600, ext. 250, dgarner@duffey.com
Golden State Capital Network, jon@goldencapital.net, www.goldencapital.net
Manning Selvage & Lee PR, rthompso@mslpr.com
Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission, (407) 422-7159, kelvingj@business-orlando.org
PetersGroup, angela@petersgrouppr.com
STARTech, www.startech.org
Robert McGarvey lives in Sonoma County, California. He is Start-Ups' "Secrets" columnist and author of How To Dot.Com (Entrepreneur Press).
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This article was originally published in the November 2000 print edition of Entrepreneur with the headline: 2nd Annual High-Tech Hot Spots.
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