$500k of Azure credit for YC startups
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$500k of Azure credit for YC startups
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Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#2WOW that is a lot of credit. How does Azure stack up "in the real world" compared to Amazon, Rackspace, Google?
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#3This seems like a Catch-22. If a startup is successful enough to get into YC, wouldn't they have a stable tech infrastructure already?
This would only benefit YC startups who already use Azure. (Unless the switching cost from AWS/Rackspace/Google is low enough nowadays.)
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#4This is incredible! 500k is a big amount. Realistically speaking most startups would get free hosting for ~3 years out of this.
For the future YC batches - depending on what your company is going to be doing, it would make very little financial sense to NOT host on Azure.
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#5This reminds me of the old joke:
Nietzsche: God is dead.
God (couple of years later): Nietzsche is dead.
pg: Microsoft is dead. http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html
Microsoft (couple of years later): Here's some gift* for your startups. :)
(*: please don't start explaining that it is not a gift, etc. -- I know. :) )
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#6I read somewhere that Satya Nadella is an active reader of Hacker News.
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#7This seems like a Catch-22. If a startup is successful enough to get into YC, wouldn't they have a stable tech infrastructure already? This would only benefit YC startups who already use Azure. (Unless the switching cost from AWS/Rackspace/Google is low enough nowadays.)
If what you have is a couple of web servers and a couple of database servers, I would take the one weekend off to learn Azure and write up scripts to migrate data and servers and other configuration.
Would definitely be harder if you have a more complex infrastructure - but in most cases entirely worth it.
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#8That is some serious credit... I should share that having access to Azure MFA (formerly PhoneFactor) alone has been worth the R&D time. Their support, although a little tough to nail down 1-on-1 time with, is very friendly. I chose that word carefully, it's not super professional, but I actually had a good time going through a migration with them, for what's it's worth.
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#9Any idea on the LCV for Azure of the average YC startup? I know the average YC startup is going to be a cut above, but are a large percentage of them going to break the $500k in an early stage?
Re: $500k of Azure credit for YC startups
#10This reminds me of the old joke: Nietzsche: God is dead. God (couple of years later): Nietzsche is dead. pg: Microsoft is dead. http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html Microsoft (couple of years later): Here's some gift* for your startups. :) (*: please don't start explaining that it is not a gift, etc. -- I know. :) )
The last two points aren't technically contradictory if one imagine pg as a grave robber :D