An Introdouction to Venture Capital and Microsoft Ventures
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The document outlines the benefits and services offered by Microsoft's BizSpark program, including access to software, cloud credits, technical support, and marketing visibility for startups. It details various development tools available on Microsoft Azure, such as support for mobile apps, web applications, and cloud development, along with pricing for different service tiers. Additionally, it mentions free online training for developers and IT professionals available through Microsoft Virtual Academy.
An Introdouction to Venture Capital and Microsoft Ventures
- 7. Stages
- 8. Parameters for the stages:
- 12. When should I raise capital?
- 14. What’s the process like?
- 35. BizSpark 3 years of Microsoft software: MSDN Ultimate Subscriptions $150 / month in Azure cloud credits. Office 365 Developer Up to 8 users per BizSpark account per startup Technical & product support. Offers from network partners Marketing visibility. Events. Ecosystem Connections. www.microsoft.com/bizspark
- 36. Free Website, Blog & Web App Hosting HTML5 ASP.NET Apache Tomcat 7 WordPress, Joomla! PHP & MySQL Django Drupal, and many more… 10 Websites for free! • 1 GB storage, 165 MB per day outbound data Shared Websites: $10/month • 1 GB storage, unlimited outbound data, custom domain support Basic Website on A2 instance • 10 GB storage, $112/month Microsoft Azure
- 37. Office 365: Office apps on any device Rich experience using any Office version Your own machine, any browser, or offline Personalized experience on all devices Excel 2013 for PC Office Mobile Office for iPad Office Online
- 38. Visual Studio Ultimate Edition Mobile App Development: • Universal Windows apps for Windows Phone & Windows tablets, hybrids, laptops & desktops • Mobile Hybrid apps with Cordova • Mobile Web apps with HTML5 & JavaScript • Native iOS & Android apps with Xamarin Web Applications: ASP.NET, HTML5, SPAs, support for 100% client-side JavaScript frameworks Cloud Development with Azure in .NET or Node C# Scripting Editor for Unity Games Arduino Sketches, .NET Micro Framework, etc. Windows Desktop apps, Office apps, C#, C++, VB, F#, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and more…
- 39. Free Dev Workstations in the Cloud Windows Store Development Workstations in the cloud Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Update 2 on Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64 Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Update 3 with Multi-Device Hybrid Apps CTP 2.0 on Windows 8.1 x64 Visual Studio Professional 14 CTP 2 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 x64 Large instance (A3): $80/month • 4 cores, 7GB RAM • 10 hrs./day, 26 days/month XL instance (A4): $135/month • 8 cores, 14GB RAM • 10 hrs./day, 22 days/month Medium instance (A2): $115/mo • 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM • 24/7 uptime
- 40. IaaS: Free Virtual Machines in the Cloud Windows Server, BizTalk, SharePoint, SQL Server, Dynamics CRM, etc. JDK 6, 7, 8 on Windows Oracle DB & WebLogic Oracle Linux OpenSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Ubuntu OpenLogic, and more Two small instances (A1) • 1 core, 1.75Gb RAM • 24/7 uptime: $116/month One medium instance (A2) • 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM • 24/7 uptime: $115/month Memory intensive instance (A7) • 8 cores, 56GB RAM • 5 hrs./day, 22 days/mo: $146 Microsoft Azure
- 41. Free Cloud Backend for Mobile Apps iOS, Android, Windows, HTML5, PhoneGap, Xamarin Broadcast Push w/ targeting (APN, GCM, WNS, etc.) Social Integration w/ Facebook, Twitter, Google Auto-Scale to millions of devices Backend in C# or NodeJS Enterprise Single Sign-On w/ Active Directory Integrate with SQL, Oracle, SAP, MongoDB Free Service Tier: 1-10 services • 20MB database, 500K API calls, 100K push notifications Basic Service Tier: $101 • 3M API calls, 1GB database, 1M push notifications, 15GB out Microsoft Azure
- 42. Online Microsoft training delivered by experts to help technologists continually learn Hundreds of courses for developers, IT Pros, students, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts 11 different languages More than 2.1M students registered Build your own Learning Plan All free! http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com
Editor's Notes
- #36: This is just the tip of the iceberg of things possible with Microsoft. Start here and go up! bizspark is your pipeline to Microsoft software development tools. need proof? over 75,000 startups from more than 100 countries have already joined Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that provides free software, support and visibility to help startups succeed
- #37: Note from Nick: I’m not an expert in web technologies. Feel free to edit the list of available platforms supported to show the most popular ones Shared websites: Scale out to 6 instances
- #38: Office for Windows & Mac, Office Mobile, Office for iPad, Office Online Exchange & SharePoint in the Cloud Lync Seamlessly switch devices and keep the rich experience using Office Mobile, Office Online, Office for iPad Create professional output even without your own machine, using any browser Get your personalized Office experience on all your devices with Office 365 ProPlus Be instantly productive in a new location by streaming Office to any Internet-connected PC Full, rich Office experience, even offline with Office 365 ProPlus
- #44: We have devices galore. There are more devices and form factors that allow you to build for your customers need. We can help you get those devices, play with them build on them. Device seeding, testing session on various form factors.