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Microsoft’s push to getting more companies onto the Cloud met with another success. Techstars Cloud, and Microsoft announced an agreement whereby new entrepreneurial companies would be participating in Cloud operations.

According to TechStars they “will select approximately ten companies focused on cloud infrastructure to participate. Chosen companies will receive seed funding, mentorship from many of the world’s top cloud infrastructure thought leaders, and will have access to perks available only to TechStars companies and alumni. The program will be managed by Jason Seats and Nicole Glaros. Jason was the founder of Slicehost (acquired by RackSpace in 2008) and has deep understanding of cloud infrastructure and entrepreneurship. Nicole Glaros is currently the Managing Director of TechStars in Boulder, and will relocate to San Antonio to co-manage the inaugural program with Jason.”

Microsoft’s New Cloud Promotional Offer

For Microsoft, they will offer access to up to $60,000 worth of Azure capacity for up to 24 months at no cost. With the initial limit of 10 seed companies, Microsoft will make their services available, and then hope that the companies continue to work in the Cloud capacity, with Microsoft as the Cloud holder. For Microsoft, the move is clear, get startup companies hooked on Azure, and they will likely continue to use it after their initial time period expires.

Global Accelerator

Techstars is not the only company that has this kind of offer. Global Accelerator also has a promotion for high quality start-up companies. The Network provides professional development, networking opportunities, training, consulting and ongoing support for members.

Startup Development

The startup development model is one that incorporates several features, and Techstar and Global Accelerator have a series of steps that new companies need to follow in order to be successful. The following graphs display that model.

Next, the startup has this element:

The culmination is  the product hypothesis:

With this to work with, it is no surprise that Microsoft feels that these entrepreneurial companies can offer a method of achieving success. The company succeeds, and so does Microsoft in the long run.

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