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Startup Essentials momentum update

     We launched Sun Startup Essentials program almost 11 months ago and I am happy to announce that it has been a great success so far. By success, I mean, it has achieved and continues to achieve the main objective of the program - to help early stage startups and provide them an enterprise grade scalable platform at a price which doesn't bite into their funding. The program started out as US only program through which startups (less than 4 years old and less than 150 employees) could get deep discounts on Sun's hardware, now offers discounted web hosting, free email based technical support and highly optimized AMP stack for Solaris platform. The program is also available for startups in India and China since May 2007 and will launch in few countries in Europe by Nov/Dec this year and additional countries in early 2008.. Stay tuned.

Till date, the program has had over 900 applications and applications in India and China are just pouring in - at even higher rate than those in US. We've had hundreds of web 2.0 startups join the program (including some of the hot web 2.0 startups ) and many have rave reviews some of which you can read here and here.

   The small startup essentials team is mostly seen at several bay networking events such as STIRR, SF New Tech Meetup, Silicon Valley Meetup and Plug and Play Expo. Along with Joyent, we sponsor Tuesday Tacos and we are also proud sponsors of Plug and Play Expo and Startup camp. We are sponsoring Startup Camp3 this time in New York city. So if you are going to be in big apple, please drop by and say hello to the team and find out how we can help your startup. You can register for Startup Camp here

If you don't see what you want in the program , get in touch with me and lets discuss how Sun might be able to help.

Posted at 04:23AM Oct 02, 2007 by rrajesh in Startups  |  Comments[1]