Kansas City: Hub of the Heartland Region
General
- Excellent schools and civic infrastructure
- Top-notch public and private universities and colleges
- A dynamic, transforming central city
- Vibrant, affordable, “best place to live” neighborhoods
- World-class cultural environment
- Major military bases and training centers
- Home to major sports and athletic teams
- Nonstop flights to nearly every major city in the U.S.
Business
- A deep, rich history of start-ups that made it big
- A thriving high-tech and start-up ecosystem
- Highly supportive business climate
- Leading business schools
- A major hub for a wide range of businesses
- Host to major agricultural organizations
Israel
General
- A robust, stable, prosperous democracy of 8 million
- Strongly supports American traditions and values
- Welcoming and safe
- High penetrance of English
- World class universities and technical schools
Business
- The Startup Nation, with the largest number of startups in the world, after the U.S.
- World’s highest per-capita number of scientists and engineers
- Home to dozens of international R&D centers
- More VC investment than all of Europe combined
- At home with international trade and manufacturing
- Israeli inventions include: the cell phone; Windows operating systems; Pentium chip; drip irrigation; VOIP; AOL Instant Messenger; “camera colonoscopy,” USB-Flash drives; advanced solar cells and desalinization technologies
If you go to the Middle East looking for oil, you don’t need to stop in Israel. But if you go looking for brains, for energy, for integrity, it’s the only place you need to stop...
- Warren Buffet
Which is which?
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*In each pair, the Heartland is on the left, Israel on the right.