I have two reactions to this: 1) These are some weird-looking results and make my somewhat skeptical of the metrics. 2) Accepting them at face value, the conc

I have two reactions to this: 1) These are some weird-looking results and make my somewhat skeptical of the metrics. 2) Accepting them at face value, the conclusion I draw is that the legal and regulatory environment (which is what this is really measuring) doesn't matter nearly as much as people on both sides think it does. Not to say it doesn't matter at all - I'm sure that, especially at the margins, it does. But California and Boston rank pretty poorly, and yet are doing okay for new business (and, at least as far as Boston is concerned, that includes businesses of the "real", not web-startup, variety).