[TWAndrews]

It's definitely not a suburb of Denver. It's relatively close, but it's a different place. It's a lot like Ann Arbor, Madison, or other cities of about 100k which have a large university in town.

It's actually got a fair bit of tech activity--nothing like top tier cities like SF, NYC, Boston, or even Austin, but for it's size the tech scene is significant.

[ryanwanger]

I've heard over and over that Boulder (county, which is around 300,000 people) is #1 in the country for software jobs per capita - but unfortunately I don't have a tangible source for that.