Heartland Tech Weekly: How to measure tech progress outside Silicon Valley

This week, I wrote three different stories that touched on different ways to measure tech progress outside of Silicon Valley: how to talk about startup hubs without referring to them as “the next Silicon Valley,” overlooked cities becoming tech centers, and Heartland tech startups to watch.
As I mentioned, the biggest challenge in tracking the progress of startups outside of the coasts is that so much venture capital money (around 40 percent of all U.S. venture capital) is