And with the rising art scene, that's truer than ever.
Niijima, Japan While the island of Niijima has a rising surf scene and is popular with surfers from Tokyo, it remains quiet for most of the year and is the perfect place for a laid-back surfing trip.
She is webbed among family, friends and lovers who populate a rising bicontinental scene: her twin brother, Alexander, is an owner of the upstart Parisian gallery Balice Hertling, which in 2011 opened a branch in New York called Balice Hertling & Lewis; her girlfriend is K8 Hardy, the chameleon performance artist whose photographs are in the current Whitney Biennial.
They're also getting pretty good at representing their rising tech scene.
With Texas' rising tech scene, startups are looking south to meet their manufacturing needs, or otherwise benefiting from the close proximity to Mexico.
From his office in Jordan, Ghandour has had a heavy hand in laying the foundation of the Arab world's rising tech scene.
The Finnish economy, which has contracted for three years in a row, is still reeling, but the country's rising startup scene is a careful indication that Finland – the land of a thousand lakes and talented engineers – is growing.
Downtown Palo Alto will always lose companies as they outgrow current supply, but will the expansion of companies like Palantir affect the future of the Valley by forcing the hottest young start-ups to lay deep roots in the rising SF scene?
He also gave us his thoughts on technology education and New York's rising tech scene, which (one day) may be just as powerful as Silicon Valley's empire.
In it, we meet artist Amy Redmond, a central figure in the rising art scene in Margate, forced out of yuppie prioritised London by unfavourable economics and gentrification, and Jordan Hassell, a married man supporting a family with his pizza business in Crewe – where he's spent his entire life.
