The Economic Character Of The Region Cities

Along with being a port city with access to harbors, lots of the economic prosperity has come from software and hardware developers. Microsoft is the most famous example of a start up company that rose to corporate power. a huge video game company Valve software spawned from Microsoft employees. Nintendo of America is located in Seattle.Many start up companies have come out of Seattle besides software, Starbucks coffee came out of this city. As well as music company, Sub Pop Records which was the first to sign Nirvana. The financial success can be attributed to 54% of the citizens having college degrees, the highest in all united states cities.

Gabe Newell of Valve, an ex Microsoft employee started his own company.  A prime example of the entrepreneurship of Seattle.