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$500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by pallian »

funkyy wrote: post #133
pallian wrote: post #82

Just FYI - the $60k/year Azure offer is technically available for any startup just willing to ask nicely (not limited to just incubators). My company, http://trippeo.com just qualified for it last month (we get $5k/mo free hosting).

Hi, great tip. Just fyi - your website is really hard on GPU. I am on Chrome and after keeping it some time in a tab it started to be so brutal on GPU that I had to shut down as my browser was unusable... Maybe possible memory leak? Only active plugin I have is uBlock.

Hmm thanks for that. Are you by any chance on a chromebook using Chrome? We noticed this issue with chromebooks... but for Macs and Windows using chrome, it seems to be fine (at least from our tests). Can you shoot me an email at adarsh[at]trippeo?

Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by pallian »

icelancer wrote: post #136
pallian wrote: post #88

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I just emailed a developer evangelist at Microsoft - tons of them around and more than willing to help startups, especially new ones with under $1M in funding.

Is there a list for these? I have seriously had problems trying to redeem any offers from Microsoft / Bizspark. I run a sports science startup and would love to look into this.

Pick a few of these folks and email them directly: https://www.linkedin.com/title/developer-evangelist-at-micro...

Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by sandGorgon »

czbond wrote: post #115
pallian wrote: post #82

Just FYI - the $60k/year Azure offer is technically available for any startup just willing to ask nicely (not limited to just incubators). My company, http://trippeo.com just qualified for it last month (we get $5k/mo free hosting).

For others interested, Softlayer does too. I like their competitive stack compared to AWS.

softlayer is truly awesome. We at RedCarpet have been using them from India and the experience has been awesome. They have features like Global IP, which is pretty close to what AWS Elastic IP does. They also have an API that is pretty well integrated with Chef and Python-Fog.

Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by kriro »

Free stuff is great but I wonder if there'll be any subtle nudges to use this for the next badges. "Your hosting estimates seem high, why don't you just use Azure"? "Well we considered it but long term we'd rather use another hoster for reasons X,Y,Z"..."Well yeah but 500k more runway is a lot."

I'm probably worried over nothing since YC investors are smart and tend to leave tech choices to the founders but I'd like to hear some feedback on this from people that pitch in the future.

Either way Microsoft seems to make pretty good decisions lately (from my humble POV). Seems like they are essentially playing the same power law as (other) investors, hoping that the next XXX will be run on Azure.

On a somewhat realted note...I worked in IT in Africa for a bit and it was pretty strange how locked into Microsoft server stuff they (Africa is big but it was true for all countires I had work relations in) are. I naively assumed that Linux/BSD would be more wide spread there but my very subjective conclusion is that MSxx-certificates are really widespread there and piracy is kind of tolerated so it's easy to learn. It was a little bit harder than expected to find Linux admins for example. I've always wondered if this was active corporate policy or just an "accident".

Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by ghuntley »

mbesto wrote: post #134
sankethkatta wrote: post #106

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Azure also has a Heroku-like offering: Azure Websites http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/websites/

Whoa! Didn't know about that! Very cool. No ruby support though :/

Ruby works/supported -> http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingRunningRubyOnRailsOn...

Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by mrmondo »

mbesto wrote: post #15

Microsoft is also giving YC startups three years of Office 365, access to Microsoft developer staff, and one year of free CloudFlare and DataStax enterprise services. Free Office365 and CloudFlare are probably the best part of this announcement, since they are "easily migrate-able" by most startups. Migrating from DO/AWS/Linode isn't fun and productive. Even though they are negligible (in terms of money and value) th…

Honestly, O365 is very poorly designed and operated product - I've seen countless organisations either implement it from scratch or migrate to it and they've had more problems than they can afford - the amount of undocumented downtime over the last year has be absolutely unbelievable - If i told you how many clients have said they have not weekly - but daily problems you wouldn't believe me.

Bundle that with cleaverly designed vendor lockin and General poor UX and you've got yourself a real headache.

Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by [deleted] »

StavrosK wrote: post #129
spellboots wrote: post #128

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Every provider will have security issues occasionally. Including digital ocean: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...

Having data scrubbing disabled by default is different than two breaches that exposed customer data in a short while, though.

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Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by [deleted] »

spellboots wrote: post #128
StavrosK wrote: post #127

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Sure, but Linode had a number of breaches. I don't think I could trust my business with them.

Every provider will have security issues occasionally. Including digital ocean: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...

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Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by ryanlol »

StavrosK wrote: post #129
spellboots wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every provider will have security issues occasionally. Including digital ocean: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...

Having data scrubbing disabled by default is different than two breaches that exposed customer data in a short while, though.

Two? You're completely ignoring the bitcoin hacks.

Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

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Post by ryanlol »

spellboots wrote: post #128
StavrosK wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, but Linode had a number of breaches. I don't think I could trust my business with them.

Every provider will have security issues occasionally. Including digital ocean: http://venturebeat.com/2014/01/02/digitalocean-fixes-securit...

Not every provider lies to their customers about the hacks though. Linode only came forward about the hacks after I announced them on their IRC.
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