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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. Open source computing, which reduced costs to start a company by 90%. Changes in the Startup Ecosystem. Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) : network transfer protocol, basically it defines requirements for network communications. Terms for less technical people.