text: Why Denver needs to be on your tech radar next year
  January 1st, 2014 at 9:00 am
  Denver will become one of the few American cities that allows its residents to purchase and recreationally consume marijuana starting in January. It's a move that is expected to create jobs and generate tax revenue. Denver is roughly 1,200 miles away from the heart of Silicon Valley, where San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is pushing for restrictions that will shutter many of the city's medical marijuana dispensaries.
  Colorado houses existing tech giants such as IBM, Oracle and Lockheed Martin, as well as an emerging and thriving startup scene. Denver has more tech startups per capita than any U.S. metropolitan area, including SendGrid, Ping Identity, Rally Software (which went public on NASDAQ this year; RALY),Sympoz, Datalogix, Newsgator, TrackVia, Convercent, Printfection,rentbits, and hundreds more.
  Like Silicon Valley, Denver is among the most educated cities in the U.S., with53 percent of the population holding a bachelor's degree.