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October 15, 2009

Baltimore ranked in top 10 for launching a startup

In a recent survey released by CNN Money, Baltimore ranked 10th in the nation for being one of the best large regions to launch a new business. The city's Emerging Technology Center, our own incubator, got a shout-out in the ranking.

So what city was number 1? Oklahoma City.

Interestingly, there were no West Coast cities that cracked the list. The editors, in their survey methodology, explained that they placed a premium in their rankings on the foreclosure rate -- and the West Coast has been hit hard with foreclosures.

What do you think about Baltimore's ranking? Fair? Deserved? Just right?

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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 2:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)
Categories: East Coast, Entrepreneurs & Risk Takers

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I agree completely with the ranking. With support from TEDCO, the #1 funding source for early-stage startups (as ranked by Entrepreneur magazine), the incubator system, DBED support, a strong entrepreneur community, and active angel investors - Baltimore could be ranked even higher than #10.

Posted by: Kris Appel | October 16, 2009 6:40 PM

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About Gus G. Sentementes

Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.

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