This presentation (taken from a special Startup Secrets session on May 8, 2013 at Harvard innovation lab) focuses on how businesses can hatch their businesses in the cloud through Amazon Web Services.

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Cloud Hatching Your Business
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Cloud hatching your startup
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Cut
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CORE!
Prototype
Company
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Develop in a weather system
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API Growth 2005 -2012
SOURCE: PROGRAMMABLEWEB

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Fly
Live with
your customers
Die

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Frictionless go to market
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Perfect startup cloud storm
Cloud
Hatched
Cloud-enabled
Disruptive
Business Model
Previously
Unreachable
Market
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Media &
Entertainment
Social,
Collaboration
eCommerce
(+ Payments)
Mobile
(+ Location)
Big Data
(+ Analytics)
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Welcome …
Andrew Jassy
SVP, Amazon Web
Services
Raj Aggarwal
CEO and co-founder,
Brian Drewes
Localytics
CEO, Zync Render
Bryan House
VP Product Marketing, Acquia
Wayne Whitcomb
CTO, Demandware
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Thank You!
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