Posts tagged with 'Best and Worst States for Business'

Will California's woes 'terminate' Silicon Valley?

For years, a small region in the western United States has served as a Mecca for technology entrepreneurs looking to follow in the footsteps of all the great founders who built their companies in a place known as Silicon Valley.

Companies including Intel, Apple, Google and Facebook, just to name a few, were all started in Silicon Valley, which is recognized the world over as the premiere source of so much technological innovation.

But are Silicon Valley's better days behind it? Silicon Valley is located in California, which was recently named the worst state to do business in the United States according to Chief Executive Magazine's annual Best and Worst States for Business survey. It's the second year in a row the state has earned the distinction.