Cloud Computing&

Startups

SEED ACCELERATOR

Åke Edlundedlund@sics.se

C!C

Uppsala, Rice, Berkeley, Technion

CycoreEU-Supply

Ericsson Business InnovationSony Ericsson

Parallel Systems

Co-founder

Founder

Coach

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KTH-SICS Cloud Innovation Center

Åke Edlund - “academic entrepreneur”

And advisor at

Cloud Day 14/9

What do you expect from cloud computing?More flexibility

Cost savings

Better scalability

Complexity reduction

More (core) business focus

Collaboration

Switch from CapEx to OpEx

Green IT

Advanced technology

Better functionality

Improved security

0 20 40 60 80

Source: KPMG the Netherlands, 2010

SaaS user

PaaS= SaaS provider= IaaS user

IaaS

Web applications

Utility computing

How to chose: “The Cloud Mindmap”Want ready to

go services

Want high level tools to create my own services

Want bare metal resources

Cloud  Infrastructure(e.g.  Physical/Virtual  Hardware)

Cloud  Storage(e.g.  Database)

Cloud  Pla7orm(e.g.  App  Server)

Cloud  Services(e.g.  Web  Services)

Cloud  Applica5on(e.g.  SaaS)

Cloud  Clients(e.g.  Browsers,  Devices)Lock-in

There’s no free lunch...

When to (maybe) use Clouds today?

Time limited tasks

Pilots

Peaks

Startups Cloud

2002. Stockholm. Startup. A typical Saturday evening...

- 3 months of buying- Weeks to get it right- 1 month of POC- Years of ownership

Example

- 3 months of buying- Weeks to get it right- 1 month of POC- Years of ownership

2002. Stockholm. Startup. A typical Saturday evening...

Example

Using clouds

Example

Example

Example

Runs on Amazon

Example

VerySolid

Asimus

SICS = Startupswww.sics.se/spin-off

What’s next? How to increase the number of

startups from SICS?

?

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Creating Startups from Scratch

Helping Existing Startups & Innovative Companies

X2-jobs - a way to start startups from scratchSEED ACCELERATOR

Book

SICS

StartPoF

PilotPresent

Share Project

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Researchers goes business

Book

SICS

StartPoF

PilotPresent

Share Project

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Researchers goes business

Pragmatic approach:

Attract early adopters, and develop in paralell

Learn from earlier SICS cases - and others

x2-jobs (9m)! startups (3m)! pilots (>2m)! studies (>1m)!

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KTH Innovation

KTH-SICS Cloud Innovation Center

SEED ACCELERATOR

SICS Seed Accelerator helping Attendium and Severalnines

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SEED ACCELERATOR

Åke Edlundedlund@sics.se

sics.se/seedaccelerator fortune1m.com

Thanks!

“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.” Wayne Gretzky (thanks, John Greathouse)