A high level overview of the services that Microsoft Ventures provides, what they are looking for, and how you can apply.
Also includes what VC is, how to get started with it, and what VCs are looking for.
35. BizSpark
3 years of
Microsoft software:
MSDN Ultimate
Subscriptions
$150 / month in
Azure cloud credits.
Office 365 Developer
Up to 8 users per
BizSpark account
per startup
Technical & product
support. Offers from
network partners
Marketing visibility.
Events. Ecosystem
Connections.
www.microsoft.com/bizspark
36. Free Website, Blog &
Web App Hosting
HTML5
ASP.NET
Apache Tomcat 7
WordPress, Joomla!
PHP & MySQL
Django
Drupal, and many more…
10 Websites for free!
• 1 GB storage, 165 MB per day
outbound data
Shared Websites: $10/month
• 1 GB storage, unlimited outbound
data, custom domain support
Basic Website on A2 instance
• 10 GB storage, $112/month
Microsoft
Azure
37. Office 365: Office
apps on any device
Rich experience using any Office version
Your own machine, any browser, or offline
Personalized experience on all devices
Excel 2013 for PC
Office Mobile Office for iPad Office Online
38. Visual Studio
Ultimate Edition
Mobile App Development:
• Universal Windows apps for Windows Phone &
Windows tablets, hybrids, laptops & desktops
• Mobile Hybrid apps with Cordova
• Mobile Web apps with HTML5 & JavaScript
• Native iOS & Android apps with Xamarin
Web Applications: ASP.NET, HTML5, SPAs, support for
100% client-side JavaScript frameworks
Cloud Development with Azure in .NET or Node
C# Scripting Editor for Unity Games
Arduino Sketches, .NET Micro Framework, etc.
Windows Desktop apps, Office apps, C#, C++, VB, F#,
JavaScript, Python, Ruby, and more…
39. Free Dev Workstations
in the Cloud
Windows Store Development
Workstations in the cloud
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Update 2
on Windows 8.1 Enterprise x64
Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Update 3 with
Multi-Device Hybrid Apps CTP 2.0
on Windows 8.1 x64
Visual Studio Professional 14 CTP 2
on Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 x64
Large instance (A3): $80/month
• 4 cores, 7GB RAM
• 10 hrs./day, 26 days/month
XL instance (A4): $135/month
• 8 cores, 14GB RAM
• 10 hrs./day, 22 days/month
Medium instance (A2): $115/mo
• 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM
• 24/7 uptime
40. IaaS: Free Virtual
Machines
in the Cloud
Windows Server, BizTalk, SharePoint,
SQL Server, Dynamics CRM, etc.
JDK 6, 7, 8 on Windows
Oracle DB & WebLogic
Oracle Linux
OpenSUSE, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Ubuntu
OpenLogic, and more
Two small instances (A1)
• 1 core, 1.75Gb RAM
• 24/7 uptime: $116/month
One medium instance (A2)
• 2 cores, 3.5GB RAM
• 24/7 uptime: $115/month
Memory intensive instance (A7)
• 8 cores, 56GB RAM
• 5 hrs./day, 22 days/mo: $146
Microsoft
Azure
41. Free Cloud Backend
for Mobile Apps
iOS, Android, Windows, HTML5, PhoneGap, Xamarin
Broadcast Push w/ targeting (APN, GCM, WNS, etc.)
Social Integration w/ Facebook, Twitter, Google
Auto-Scale to millions of devices
Backend in C# or NodeJS
Enterprise Single Sign-On w/ Active Directory
Integrate with SQL, Oracle, SAP, MongoDB
Free Service Tier: 1-10 services
• 20MB database, 500K API calls,
100K push notifications
Basic Service Tier: $101
• 3M API calls, 1GB database,
1M push notifications, 15GB out
Microsoft
Azure
42. Online Microsoft training delivered by experts to
help technologists continually learn
Hundreds of courses for developers, IT Pros,
students, entrepreneurs and enthusiasts
11 different languages
More than 2.1M students registered
Build your own Learning Plan
All free!
http://www.microsoftvirtualacademy.com
Hinweis der Redaktion
This is just the tip of the iceberg of things possible with Microsoft. Start here and go up!
bizspark is your pipeline to Microsoft software development tools. need proof? over 75,000 startups from more than 100 countries have already joined
Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that provides free software, support and visibility to help startups succeed
Note from Nick: I’m not an expert in web technologies. Feel free to edit the list of available platforms supported to show the most popular ones
Shared websites: Scale out to 6 instances
Office for Windows & Mac, Office Mobile, Office for iPad, Office Online
Exchange & SharePoint in the Cloud
Lync
Seamlessly switch devices and keep the rich experience using Office Mobile, Office Online, Office for iPad
Create professional output even without your own machine, using any browser
Get your personalized Office experience on all your devices with Office 365 ProPlus
Be instantly productive in a new location by streaming Office to any Internet-connected PC
Full, rich Office experience, even offline with Office 365 ProPlus
We have devices galore.
There are more devices and form factors that allow you to build for your customers need.
We can help you get those devices, play with them build on them.
Device seeding, testing session on various form factors.