Here's an industry analysis I did on Vancouver a while back: http://vancouverdata.blogspot.ca/2010/09/what-is-work-of-dogs-in-this-city.html http://vancouverda

Here's an industry analysis I did on Vancouver a while back: http://vancouverdata.blogspot.ca/2010/09/what-is-work-of-dogs-in-this-city.html http://vancouverdata.blogspot.ca/2010/09/what-is-work-of-dog... In Vancouver we have MDA, which makes satellites, PMC Sierra, PlentyOfFish, HootSuite, PhoneGap. Not huge, but substantial. Oh, and a dark horse named D-Wave. And we had Creo and Flickr. We don't have much of a military presence to help with R&D funding, hence Ottawa's slightly bigger scene. They almost got rid of the only army base on the West Coast a few years ago in fact. There was an article on here a while back about what made a good startup city. We do have some old wealth (mining cos), some great universities, and nice weather by Canadian standards. Also doesn't help that we're a 2 hr flight from San Fran!