Non-compete enforcement decides whether engineers can leave an incumbent and found a rival

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Immigration rules set how many founders a startup city can import each year One anchor employer in a small city trains the talent pool and then loses it to the first funded startup The university in town supplies interns for a decade before it supplies a single founder Ecosystem indexes rank cities on venture dollars and miss the informal networks that place first hires A startup ecosystem without exits never recycles its money back into the next generation of founders 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