Addressed to Startup and innovators on how to leverage Open Source and Cloud Computing to escape the VC Trap.

1. Amity Startup Workshop : 30 May 09 Ashish Banerjee Chief Software Technologist Sun Microsystems India P. Ltd.

3. Some of my Startup Learnings

4. Differentiate Invention & Innovation

6. Open Storage JavaFX Sun Drives Community Innovation Globally

7. Sun's Vision Essential Technology for the Network

8. Guided By A Singular Vision The Network Is The Computer.

9. Industry-Leading Customers Open-source is powering the Web Enterprise 2.0 Telecommunications On Demand, SaaS, Hosting Web 2.0 OEM / ISV's

12. Contracts are must should be enforceable

14. Get Creative with Funding (no-VC approach)

16. Align your family with your dream

17. First take care of your personal finances

19. Build a Lagan Team!

21. Omnipresence of MySQL : telecom, BFSI, eGov

23. Cloud Computing: Public, Private, Hybrid

26. Face to Face

29. Screw It Just Do It: Branson

30. Virtual Communities: http://sta.rtup.biz/

31. Just in Time Help, Mentoring (TIE)

33. Online legal and patent help

34. Leverage STEP and Virtual Incubation

37. First ensure that you are not giving away your edge.

39. Go Open Source : Drug Discovery to OS

41. Water is Free : We Still Buy it ! Free Water Purification Distribution Packaging QA BRANDING

42. MySQL : Free at Core : U Pay4Value Open-source server with pluggable APIs Monitoring Enterprise manager Query analysis Hot fixes Service packs Best practices rules Knowledge base 24x7 support Load balancer

44. 70,000 downloads each day

45. Part of the open source L/W/SAMP stack

46. Reduces Database TCO by 90%

47. MySQL Enterprise is our Commercial Offering

48. Database of the Year 2008

49. USP: Plugable Storage Engine

51. Sun Open Source Stack

52. What’s free? What do you pay for?

54. Cloud Computing Layers

55. Types of Clouds

56. Sun Breadth of Cloud Computing

58. Thank You! [email_address]