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Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by skj » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 1:16 PM UTC

bfwi wrote: post #6

How much of Google's cloud stack are you required to use to apply for this program? If they require you to use GAE for your backend for example, I think it's going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of startups.

GCE is a more generic/flexible backend service. Run whatever you want on there.

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by cookiecaper » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 1:22 PM UTC

jqueryin wrote: post #4

It's tough to say what their intent is regarding this program. My initial inclination is that they have multiple possible motives for providing this service: 1. To bring more awareness to their developer services and offerings in the small business sector. They've recently stated that SMBs are of huge interest to them. For example, check out "Google My Business", a recent play of theirs: http://www.google.com/busines…

I just found out about Polymer by clicking through the site, so I'd say the first point is pretty realistic.

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by rbanffy » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 1:35 PM UTC

bfwi wrote: post #6

How much of Google's cloud stack are you required to use to apply for this program? If they require you to use GAE for your backend for example, I think it's going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of startups.

You can run your GAE workloads on AppScale on your own infrastructure (or on GCE, AWS or whatever IaaS you choose).

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by jfoster » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 1:40 PM UTC

jqueryin wrote: post #4

It's tough to say what their intent is regarding this program. My initial inclination is that they have multiple possible motives for providing this service: 1. To bring more awareness to their developer services and offerings in the small business sector. They've recently stated that SMBs are of huge interest to them. For example, check out "Google My Business", a recent play of theirs: http://www.google.com/busines…

I just wonder whether they might be more successful with this if they explained what they hope to get out of it.

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by abritishguy » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 1:55 PM UTC

bfwi wrote: post #6

How much of Google's cloud stack are you required to use to apply for this program? If they require you to use GAE for your backend for example, I think it's going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of startups.

You can use GCE which is essentially EC2.

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by waitingkuo » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 1:57 PM UTC

Got no idea about the eligibility criteria for applying this. I'm curious about whether people currently using Google Compute Engine and applying material design get the higher priority or not

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by rlpb » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 1:58 PM UTC

skj wrote: post #11

bfwi wrote: post #6

How much of Google's cloud stack are you required to use to apply for this program? If they require you to use GAE for your backend for example, I think it's going to be a dealbreaker for a lot of startups.

GCE is a more generic/flexible backend service. Run whatever you want on there.

> Run whatever you want on there.

"Supported distros include Debian and CentOS."

Apparently not. This seems quite limited.

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by icebraining » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 2:17 PM UTC

rlpb wrote: post #17

skj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GCE is a more generic/flexible backend service. Run whatever you want on there.

> Run whatever you want on there. "Supported distros include Debian and CentOS." Apparently not. This seems quite limited.

"Include" is not "limited to": https://developers.google.com/compute/docs/operating-systems

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by webmaven » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 2:30 PM UTC

Does anyone know if there is a deadline or time limit to apply?

Re: Google Startup Launch

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Post by thomasd » Tue, Jul 29, 2014, 2:32 PM UTC

jqueryin wrote: post #4

It's tough to say what their intent is regarding this program. My initial inclination is that they have multiple possible motives for providing this service: 1. To bring more awareness to their developer services and offerings in the small business sector. They've recently stated that SMBs are of huge interest to them. For example, check out "Google My Business", a recent play of theirs: http://www.google.com/busines…

It's probably more than creating awareness for their dev services. From what I can see, they're rapidly increasing partnership efforts for their ad-based products (e.g. AdX integration). Could be a trojan-horse type of move to get in front of developers who will someday be serving ads to generate revenue.