In 2012, Entrepreneurial Magazine called Bend “The Next Big City for Entrepreneurship.” They were right!
MedCityNews.com says that Bend has a…
“superb quality of life, recreational opportunities, and proximity to the San Francisco Bay Area. The vibe of Bend is appealing, unique, and unpretentious given the number of successful business, tech, and professional athlete transplants who call it home. It’s home to a small but growing tech community that has been developing over the past decade, and that’s what piqued my interest…The sheer density of talent, companies, capital, and universities that exist in the Valley are second to none. It truly is the epicenter of the startup world, and it’s the regional cluster for innovation and entrepreneurship…what I found in Bend was a deeply entrepreneurial community that is leaps and bounds beyond just a destination resort town. Bend fights way above its weight class and is professional scale for its size. Its ability to do so is tied to the deep entrepreneurial DNA that permeates the region…Bend is the 16th largest metro area in the country for high-tech startup density. Pretty amazing for a town with fewer than 100,000 people.”