But the CVA is only the first step. To use an analogy, look at Silicon Valley. It's the mecca of all tech, gathering many of the world’s best engineers, entrepreneurs, and investors into a geographic area that's relatively small in the context of the United States. But even with the emergence of this world-class tech hub, public and private leaders in the United States did not exactly call it a day. Instead, they took pains to encourage tech entrepreneurship across the country, at both the state and city level, through countless programs, initiatives, and policies.