The weather doesn't matter. Pittsburgh is a perfectly fine place to take an idea and create a business around it. There is access to talent, office space, manu

The weather doesn't matter. Pittsburgh is a perfectly fine place to take an idea and create a business around it. There is access to talent, office space, manufacturing space, vendors, services, customers, and other industries. It ALSO has an airport, internet access, roads, electricity and running water. All of these are relatively low in cost as is real-estate if you want to live in a house. What might be an issue is getting regular visitations from VC's. VC's don't have much presence there, but will fly in if sufficiently motivated. That said if you don't need regular meetings with VC's... Pittsburgh is pretty awesome. At some point, people have to start wondering how miraculous it is that start-ups can deign to exist in such a comically expensive place as the Bay area.