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Episode 002: The Missing Episode

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Silicon Valley Is a Great Place to Start a Business

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20 years ago, if you wanted to set up something that had a web service, uh, you needed a sun server, which was $50,000. You needed a database from Oracle, which was several hundred thousand dollars in capital costs just to get off the ground before you even thought about salaries or anything on those lines. Today you can rent capacity, all the capital capacity you need on AWS or Rackspace or whatever. Um, and that's nice at Silicon Valley, but what's really interesting is in other markets, it lets you get investment more easily than you could before. I think it's why you're seeing stuff, you know, stuff like that. Right?

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