I agree with rms...not too much in terms of startups, but we do have 2 things going for us: 1) College students, lots of them. That means that you can find ch

I agree with rms...not too much in terms of startups, but we do have 2 things going for us: 1) College students, lots of them. That means that you can find cheap smart labor if you're looking to hire (Carnegie Mellon has lots of coders). A noteworthy number of startups/startupy ideas came out of CMU students, including buxfer, flexcar, and recaptcha. 2) Everything here is really really cheap. The cost of living is 84% the national average, vs. 182% for Silicon Valley. A lot easier to bootstrap something. Full disclosure: I'm only in Pittsburgh for school and intend to move to SV ASAP. Weather's much nicer there, and I go where the work is.