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"Entrepreneurs look for new business models. MBAs help administrate existing business models. Know the difference" -Probir Roy #tsparks

Having a hard time focusing on the discussion at #tsparks. Please follow others' live-tweets at http://j.mp/ilYWEt

@YourStorydotin Misjudgement - Pune is a very tech-heavy audience. They already know everything about the cloud cc: @vipulk @aparanjape

This talk will be about: "what cloud can do to startups". LOL. @janamiramm, I really hope you meant "What cloud can do _for_ startups" :-)

Next up is a talk on Cloud from Startups by @janakiramm of Amazon. It's a #SponsorPitch - not sure it fits the theme of the event...

#tsparks kailash katkar says 'showbazi bahut karni parti hai bade cities mein' to sell a product

@thecancerus Yes. QuickHeal is one Pune success story of services-to-product. Another great example is Kenati.

Most Pune startups are by techies. They should go find co-founders from sales/marketing side before starting up http://j.mp/jvZxkF

For a tech company tech/engr department & business/sales are the two main pillars. Don't start a startup without both http://j.mp/jvZxkF

For a great example of how superior knowledge of local customers helped QuickHeal beat MNCs, see the live-blog: http://j.mp/jvZxkF

.@punetech live-blog of Techsparks event updated with VSS Mani's advice to entrepreneurs http://j.mp/jvZxkF cc: @YourStoryDotIn

@sankarshan IndicThreads Upcoming is a very new conference. In first few years of a conference introductory talks abound. @brijeshkartha

@sankarshan I missed half the talks, including some that sounded like they would be good. cc: @brijeshkartha

Remember, using vendor proprietary features (i.e. innovation) can give you significant advantages. Disadvantage of portability.

Remember, you can use vendor neutral cloud APIs like jCloud to make your apps portable. Less powerful API, but you get portability

SaaS portability best practices: Figure out what meta-data you can export, and export it.

SaaS portability best practices: Regularly export your data in a useful format

Do careful calculations on what SLA you provide your customers, and what SLAs you need from cloud vendors to support that.

IaaS portability best practices: Understand the VM format and whether that is portable

Cloud portability best practices: Continuously keep assessing/updating replacement options for your cloud stack