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The U.S. Startup Economy Is in Both Better and Worse Shape than We Thought

Harvard Business Review

The chart above shows where cities fall according to Guzman and Stern’s measure of average startup quality between 2001 and 2003 — more on that in a moment — and compares that to their GDP growth from 2003–2014. “A doubling of entrepreneurial quality predicts an increase of 6.8% startup hubs.).

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