The 7 Hottest Startup Scenes in the U.S. (Infographic)Tax-planning startup GoodApril analyzes key benchmarks for entrepreneurs, including the median salary for a technology employee and the price of office space.
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如果你想搬到一个hotstartupscene without breaking the bank, consider heading to Austin, Texas. Bonus: When the music-and-technology conferenceSouth By Southwestrolls through, you won't have to scramble to find a hotel.
Austin ranks as the No. 1 place to launch your business, according to a new ranking byGoodApril, a San Francisco-based tax-planning startup. The ranking compares the seven hottest startup scenes in the U.S. across measures that matter most to new entrepreneurs: median tech-employee earnings, maximum personal income tax, property tax, the cost of housing and the cost of office space. Perhaps surprisingly, San Francisco, the longtime Silicon Valley startup mecca, ranks as the worst place to launch, due to high costs and taxes, GoodApril found.
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Florida, Nevada, Texas and Washington have no state income tax, making them good places to launch, points out Mitch Fox, a co-founder of GoodApril. Tony Hsieh saved a lot of money by movingZapposto Nevada about a decade ago, says Fox. "It may take Las Vegas or Austin 25 years to challenge northern California as an incubator of new technology, but they are working on it. Zero state income tax gives them a big advantage," says Fox in ablog post. See the infographic, which compares the costs of doing business in each city, below.
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Correction:An earlier version of this infographic misstated the median tech wage in San Francisco on its map image. San Francisco's median tech wage is $123,497.
