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Michigan

Michigan

Ann Arbor

Population: 113,485
Labor force: 59,777
Startups per 1,000 people: 2.30
Small business per 1,000 people: 55

What to know about starting up in Ann Arbor:
"There's two large universities right nearby: University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University. There's a plethora of talent that walks out of that school and [some] of that talent doesn't want to move away. You're able to get inexpensive labor that has high-end potential and you don't have to match what they'd make at a big company because they don't want to move."
-Jonn Behrman, serial entrepreneur, executive vice president at online promotions software company HookLogic