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==ReportsReport(s)==

==Data Set(s)== Updates to the data were done for 2017 and Q1/2 of 2018 , and the list was expanded beyond the top 100 cities to include all U.S. cities that have received venture capital from 1980 to present. State rankings were likewise added. The results are available as spreadsheetstab delimited text files. When using this data, please reference them as follows:*[http://www.edegan.com/Top_100_Cities_2017Ranking2016WMove.txt 2016 U.S.xlsx Cities]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2016 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMove.txt 2017 U.S. Cities]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2017 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com]/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking*[http://www.edegan.com/Top_100_Cities_2018_Q12Ranking2018Q12WMove.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.xlsx S. Cities]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2018 Q1&2 U.S. Startup City Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2016WMoveState.txt 2016 U.S. States]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2016 U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2017WMoveState.txt 2017 U.S. States] : Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2017 U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking*[http://www.edegan.com/Ranking2018Q12WMoveState.txt 2018 Q1&2 U.S. States]: Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2018 Q1&2 U.S. Startup State Rankings", Available from www.edegan.com/wiki/US_Startup_City_Ranking

These reports use data from Thomson–Reuters VentureXpert to examine growth venture capital (VC) investment in the United States for each year (or part of a year) and generate a ranking for U.S. startup cities. The overall ranking is based on equally weighting cities’ ranks for growth venture capital invested, the number of new growth venture capital deals(i.e., first growth VC investments into a startups), and the number of active growth VC-backed startupstartups. The difference between growth and transactional VC is described in [https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/bi-brief-030518-mcnair-growthtransvc.pdf Egan and Carranza (2018)]. Essentiually, growth VC is seed, early or later stage investments in predominantly high-growth high-tech startups.

The difference between growth We follow the academic convention and transactional VC is described in [https://www.bakerinstitutedefine a firm as an active recipient of venture capital if not more than 5 years have elapsed since the last round of investment and the firm has not experienced an IPO or an acquisition.org/media/files/files/52cdbe0c/biThis definition overstates reality -brief-030518perhaps as many as half of all "active" firms will be either dead or living-mcnair-growthtransvcdead in a given municipality.pdf Egan and Carranza (2018)]

==Outside References==

Egan, Edward J., Anne Dayton, and Diana Carranza. 2017. "The Top 100 U.S. Startup Cities in 2016". ice Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, Houston, Texas. https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/38132e23/mcnair-pub-rankinguscities-122117.pdf Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2017 U.S. Startup City Rankings", [http://www.edegan.com/Top_100_Cities_2017.xlsx Available from www.edegan.com] Egan, Edward J. (2018), "2018 Q1&2 U.S. Startup City Rankings", [http://www.edegan.com/Top_100_Cities_2018_Q12.xlsx Available from www.edegan.com]