One anchor employer in a small city trains the talent pool and then loses it to the first funded startup

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Immigration rules set how many founders a startup city can import each year The university in town supplies interns for a decade before it supplies a single founder Non-compete enforcement decides whether engineers can leave an incumbent and found a rival A startup ecosystem without exits never recycles its money back into the next generation of founders Ecosystem indexes rank cities on venture dollars and miss the informal networks that place first hires Diaspora networks are the cheapest market research a founder can access before entering a new country Hiring a first employee in another country requires an entity before payroll and most founders learn that late Cross-border data rules decide where a startup can host customer records Campus venture funds of fifty thousand dollars teach students how to spend money not how to earn it Corporate-backed incubators sell access to a parent company whose procurement team will still refuse to buy