Startups Are Everywhere  By Brad Feld  In 2012, there was a
cambrian explosion of new startup activity all over the world.
The seeds for this had been planted during the preceding years,
but as 2012 comes to an end, a true Startup Revolution has
begun.  I’ve been involved in starting companies, either as an
entrepreneur, angel investor, or venture capitalist since I
started my first company in Boston in 1987. When I moved to
Boulder in 1995, I didn’t have any expectation of doing business
there; rather I was spending all my time traveling from Boston
to NY to San Francisco to Seattle where I was investing my own
money as an angel investor. At the time, there was a belief that
there were only a few places in the world where entrepreneurial
ecosystems could - and had - developed, with the bay area and
Silicon Valley the defining one.  I’ve always rejected the idea
that startups were destined to only exist in certain cities.
Instead, I believed that startups could flourish anywhere. When
you step back and think