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Kansas City: Five Reasons Startup Village Could Happen Only Here Other cities may try to replicate the magic, but it won't be easy.

This story appears in the August 2016 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

Google Fiber
KC's Google Fiber pipeline is the furnace driving the city's startups.

Startup Village is a residential block that has been home to as many as 32 startups at once. It began with no funding or master plan but has evolved into an incubator and, as of last year, an official 501(c)3 nonprofit. Other cities may try to replicate the magic, but it won't be easy. Here's why.

1. It was blessed by Google.

In 2012, Startup Village's street was ground zero for Google Fiber, the tech giant's superfast broadband service that's said to be 80 times faster than the national average. Matthew Marcus, one of Startup Village's co-leaders, owns the house that first received service.

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