Slides of talk given at the Startup Center in Chennai. In this talk, I talk about the services future and how startups can play a critical role in such a future.

1. Startups and the Cloud Chain
Reaction

2. Plan for the talk
 India sucks
 Startups as key to future Indian success
 Unsolicited startup advise
 Great computing convergence
 Services Ocean Model
 Startups and Cloud – Potent combo for
disruption
 Conclusion

3. Why I am talking here?
• Because I am an
analyst
• 30000 feet view
• No emotions
(Ideally)
• Activist analyst?

4. India Sucks

5. Wasted Talent

6. Stop Reinventing Wheel

7. Startups As India’s Future

8. Unsolicited Advise
 Think big
 Fail fast and often
 Disrupt yourselves
 Hire Imagineers – Say NO to engineers
 Distributed architecture FTW
 Forget humans and think APIs

9. Think Big

10. Fail Fast And Often

11. Disrupt Yourselves

12. Imagineers NOT Engineers

13. Distributed Architecture FTW
 Easy to fail
 Easy to disrupt
 Easy imagineering

14. Forget Humans Think APIs

15. Great Computing Convergence

16. Understanding Cloud
Imagine cloud to
be the
“infrastructure”
for data (where
the action
happens)

17. Understanding Social
• Social is not about
relationships and
conversation
• Social is about
relationship
between data
• Social is a data
source

18. Understanding Mobile
• Mobile is not
just an interface
• Mobile is also a
sensor and a
source of data

19. Big Data

20. Today

21. Great Computing Convergence
• Services, Services,
Services
• Large scale
automation
• Complex Adaptive
Systems

22. Internet Of Things

23. Services Ocean Model
 World is full of services: Infrastructure Services,
Platform Services, Services around data (called
Apps in the previous era), Sensors as services,
Data services, Intelligence as a service, etc.
 Services interact via APIs
 Services are also consumed through APIs
 Service plumbers (Ops), Service Devs
(Developers) & Service Consumers (Biz Users)

24. Startups And Cloud

25. Startups And Cloud
 Cloud lets you think big
 Cloud lets you fail fast and often
 Cloud lets you disrupt yourself more easily
 Distributed architecture is in the cloud DNA
 Cloud is part of the Services Ocean and
forms the basis for higher order services
 Cloud levels the playing ground for startups

26. Conclusion

27. My Coordinates
Work: Principal Analyst, Rishidot Research
and Editor, CloudAve.com
Email: krishnan@krishworld.com
Twitter: @krishnan
Website: www.rishidot.com
Blog: www.cloudave.com/author/krishnan/
Slides: www.slideshare.net/rishidot