Forget Silicon Valley. A growing number of entrepreneurs are returning to their roots to build a business. August 22, 2019 13 min read This story appears in the September 2019 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe » Nobody really wanted to fund us,” recalls Alex Kubicek, a soft-spoken Midwesterner with a shrewd scientific mind.  He’s thinking back to 2013. He was 25 and had already banked dual degrees in physics and electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin–Whitewater, as well as a master’s in atmospheric science from top-tier UW–Madison. Then he’d created a hyperlocal weather observation company called Understory and landed it … Continue reading You Don't Need to Leave Your Hometown to Start a Great Business