startup in action: microsoft bizspark, by mario fontana

#BizSpark

FREE

50.000 Startups

WW

(~ 1000 in Italia)

2.000 Network

Partners

(45 in Italy)

112 countries

9 languages

Visibility

Full featured

development tools

and production

+

Free Cloud usage

+

MS tech people

Promote Startups

locally and globally

45 Network Partner in

Italy (>2000 WW)

+

Investors

+

Local activities

2) Choose

image, then

create and

configure

VM(s) for

application

1) Choose image,

then create VM

for DBMS and

configure DBMS

Librar

y

VM

Images

startup

er

ApplicationData

5)

Configur

e load

balancer

6) Manage VMs and

DBMS (e.g.,

deploying new OS

images in VMs)

3) Provision

database, then

create tables

and add data

4)

Install

applicat

ion

PaaS experienceStartup

er

ApplicationData

2) Deploy

application

1) Provision

database, then

create tables

and add data

Global Physical Infrastructureservers/network/datacenters

compute storage networking commerceidentity

North Central US, S. Central US, N. Europe, W. Europe, E. Asia, S.E. Asia + 24 Edge CDN Locations

VMsmessagingCDN caching database

business

analytics

automated

elastic

managed resources

usage based

...

BizSpark

BizSpark

Plus

BizSpark

ONE

BizSpark Plus PartnersLeading incubators and accelerators working with world-class startups.

2-300 organizations recruited by end of 2012

BizSpark One Highlights

112 Companies since Launch in 2009

Raised over $1B in Venture Capital

13 have been acquired

"BizSpark One is brilliant. It's like a

concierge service for start-ups. I

don't know of another company of

this size with a start-up program

this good. I always quote BizSpark

One as an example of how

corporates should talk to start-ups.”

Loic Le Meur, SeesmicTelegraph (UK) 9/24/10