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Demo Spring 2011: Starting a Company in the Age of the Cloud
Starting a company is a lot easier than it used to be.
03 Mar 2011
Starting a company, these days, is a lot easier than it used to be. What used to take years and a vast amount of money can now take just months and not much more than pocket change. Alain Chesnais, cofounder and Chief Technology Officer ofTrendspottr and current president of the ACM, explains during Demo Spring 2011 how he got from idea to product launch in about six months.
Tekla S. Perry is a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. Based in Palo Alto, Calif., she's been covering the people, companies, and technology that make Silicon Valley a special place for more than 40 years. An IEEE member, she holds a bachelor's degree in journalism from Michigan State University.
