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by jgalt212 4571 days ago
All of this may be true, or not true, but as far as geography is concerned, the #1 thing is to be near your customers. Do you know why Microsoft was first based in Albuquerque, NM of all places? Because that's where their biggest customer, MITS, was based.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft