Maryland is home to a thriving startup community, says Fast Company. The magazine ranks the Free State No. 3 on its
list of the most innovative states.
Florida, Texas, Arizona and Alaska rounded out the top five. Mississippi, Oklahoma and Virginia were at the bottom three of the list, which ranked the 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Maryland also ranked No. 4 on Fast Company's breakdown of the number of startups per million residents.
The magazine culled data from a variety of sources to come up with the ranking: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity and others.