After 2001, however, the cost of bandwidth, processing power and storage dropped dramatically, and reliable open source computing stacks began to emerge, making it increasingly cheap and easy to launch web services.
After years of focusing on Web-based start-ups, which seemed cheap and easy to launch, there is a long list of factors that are making it easier for entrepreneurs to shift to making physical electronic things.
Thanks to the high adoption rates of social channels, grassroots movements are relatively cheap and easy to launch - but the triggers must be powerful ideas delivered by true believers in well-structured narratives.
Hayabusa thus requires only a tenth of the fuel of a traditional thrust engine, making it much lighter, and therefore easier to launch from Earth.Hayabusa, which is running on autopilot, because radio signals from Earth take 17 minutes to arrive, has until early December to complete its business at the asteroid before embarking on the trip back home.
Peña says Chile is leveraging its open, stable and low friction economy to become the tech hub for Latin America and put in place a host of measures to materialize this vision, including financial support programs, grants, competitions, mentor networks, and improved legal and procedural frameworks that make it easier to launch and run a startup.
And the cost of transmitting information to and between shareholders has fallen, making it easier to launch and fight campaigns.The emergence of a new type of activist investor deep-pocketed hedge funds—has also had a galvaninvestor deep-pocketed
That cuts down on the overall size and weight, making it easier to launch aboard a rocket.
Al Qaeda "will be more prolific in recruiting, and it could become easier to launch attacks from Yemen," said the official.
It is easier to launch and test an idea, and to pivot to another if it flops.Mr Patricof says that today's entrepreneurs are more mature.
