Michele Leroux Bustamante Uses Azure with Her Start up!
While at the Toronto stop of the .NET Rocks! Visual Studio Launch Road Trip, Carl and Richard talked to Michele Leroux Bustamante about her experiences running a start-up using Azure. Michele talks about how she's been able to bootstrap her startup company SnapBoard with no external funding. The conversation digs into how you can get free Azure services using MSDN, BizSpark and BizSpark Plus, as well as the process of doing a lean start up - don't build more than you have to and get as much feedback as you can!
Guests:
Michèle Leroux Bustamante
Michele Leroux Bustamante is a founder and CIO of Solliance (solliance.net), founder of Policy Server, a Microsoft Regional Director and Microsoft Azure MVP. Michele has years of experience in many fields including software architecture and design, identity and access management, cloud computing technologies, security and compliance, and DevOps.
Links:
- Awesome Chat App Blog Post http://gauravmantri.com/2012/08/30/how-i-built-an-awesome-chat-application-for-windows-8-with-windows-azure-mobile-service/
- Michele's Blog http://michelelerouxbustamante.com/
- SnapBoard http://snapboard.com/
- Alline Watkins http://www.userdrivendev.com/
- Visual Website Optimizer http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/
- User Voice http://www.uservoice.com/
- Zoiner Tejada on Google Analytics http://pluralsight.com/training/Courses/TableOfContents/google-analytics