Tech Hubs Outside SV

SF, Seattle, NYC, Boulder are tech hubs

I'm a little confused by the question ("up and coming" relates a different meaning to me than "outside silicon valley"), but I wouldn't call Seattle up and coming by my personal definition. Especially since Amazon, Microsoft, Nintendo, et al are there. The existence of smaller companies doesn't negate the fact that there are already huge, established players there and the city is already known to be a huge tech haven.My opinion would point more towards something like Detroit. A city not well

Two possible reasons: Seattle is the largest tech center outside of the Bay Area, and the cost of living is still manageable.

SLC has a strong startup ecosystem, and around Provo these days also; it also gives you easy access to outdoor activity if you are into hiking and skiing (typical of west coast and mountain towns). The density of tech jobs is surely higher than Detroit, if not absolute numbers. Detroit has presences but they all seem to be tiny (~100 people each?), is it really considered a hot place for tech these days?

Atlanta maybe? the south east has a disproportionately low number of tech companies relative to number of people (whether that's equivalent to talent, who knows?)

I think Austin is the next tech hub. The weather is better than NYC, vibrant food scene, large pool of talent/graduating students, readily available cheap/24hr food and coffee (especially near campus).

Hear hear, Nashville is a great place to live and work if you are in the tech community. We have a great tech scene, and some big players, like Google, are really starting to take notice. We are one of their inaugural Tech Hub cities, and they have been working with entrepreneurs here for a few years. We have several great initiatives like the Jumpstart Foundry and the Entrepreneur Center that other cities are now emulating. Also, my own company, Populr, was in 500 Startups Batch 7. We have good

yes! there's a couple dozen tech companies in the area, but there's a large demographic of byo$$. happy to connect via other channels if you want a longer discussion.

There are a lot of places in the United States that are well between "middle of nowhere" and current high housing cost markets like San Francisco and NYC.Technology wise I have heard of decent activity (including in a few of these cities some startup ventures) in places like Austin, the North Carolina research triangle, Miami, Boulder, Phoenix, Portland, Boston, etc. (Internationally, I'm sure there's some other markets people can add.) I have heard of housing costs creepi

For those in tech, I recommend checking out TechTown Detroit:https://techtowndetroit.org/A former colleague from decades ago runs it, so I visited it late last year. I was really impressed. They are very interested in enabling all sort of entrepreneurship in Detroit, including that of the tech kind.For personal reasons, I'm pretty tied to San Francisco. But if I were starting a new business, I&#