For our fifteenth #StartupsEverywhere profile, we talked with Stuart Gutwein, attorney at Gutwein Law and startup ecosystem builder in Greater Lafayette, IN.

For our fourteenth #StartupsEverywhere profile, we talked to Linda Olson, president and founder of Tampa Bay WaVE in Florida.

For our thirteenth #StartupsEverywhere, we chatted with Eric Mathews, CEO of Start Co. and ecosystem builder in Memphis, TN.

For our twelfth #StartupsEverywhere, we chatted with Courtney Klein, Founder at SEED SPOT, and C'pher Gresham, National Director of Expansion at SEEDSPOT in Phoenix, AZ.

For our eleventh #StartupsEverywhere, we talked with Bill Kenney, startup ecosystem builder in Connecticut.

For our tenth #StartupsEverywhere, we talked with Lisa Garner, Executive Director of theCO in Jackson, TN.

For our ninth #StartupsEverywhere, we talked with Sara Woldt and Scott Resnick in Madison, WI

For our eighth #StartupsEverywhere, we talked with Kyle Ashby, co-founder of The Sandbox Santa Barbara and StartupSB in Santa Barbara, CA

For our seventh #StartupsEverywhere, we talked with Darius Graham, Director of the Social Innovation Lab at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

For our sixth #StartupsEverywhere profile, we chatted with Cedar Rapids startup ecosystem builder David Tominsky, Managing Director of the Iowa Startup Accelerator, powered by NewBoCo.

For our fifth #StartupsEverywhere profile, meet Matthew Marcus, Executive Director of the Kansas City Startup Foundation and startup ecosystem builder in Kansas City.

For our fourth #StartupsEverywhere profile, meet Tarik Sultan, Founder and Managing Partner of Sultan Ventures, an investment firm, and Founder and Managing Partner of XLR8UH, the University of Hawaii (UH) venture accelerator program

For our third #StartupsEverywhere profile, meet Scott Phillips, Founder of Civic Ninjas in Tulsa, OK.

For our second #StartupsEverywhere profile, meet Chris Heivly, Managing Partner at the Startup Factory in Durham, NC.

For our first #StartupsEverywhere profile, meet Lucas Lindsey, Executive Director of Domi Station, an entrepreneurial support organization based in Tallahassee, FL.

When asked to envision a startup community, the majority of Americans probably think of San Francisco, New York City, or maybe Cambridge, with flocks of engineers in hoodies drinking cold brew coffee. This is an unsurprising perception—78 percent of venture capital investments go to just three states: California, New York, and Massachusetts. Entrepreneurs and technology talent are often forced to move to where the funding is, creating a money-talent cycle that has contributed to heavily concentrated startup hubs on the two coasts.