PHP.TO.START 2013 - Startup e PHP: business scalabile e tecnologie all'avanguardia

UpCloo è una startup di origine torinese selezionata per un investimento internazionale dall'Oxygen Accelerator di Birmingham edizione 2012. La scelta da adottare PHP ha permesso all'attività di sviluppare il progetto e crescere velocemente. Questo talk mostrerà come un linguaggio come PHP possa rivelarsi lo strumento perfetto per le startup che vogliono raggiungere rapidamente i propri obiettivi, grazie alla sua elasticità e alla sua facile integrazione con servizi e prodotti cloud based.

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1. Gabriele Mittica PHP.TO.START 2013
2. UpCloo – related links Provides semantic based related links in a fully automated way. www.upcloo.com
3. UpCloo – How to SignUp on UpCloo.com Customize your widget Copy & Paste Javascript snippet
4. Oxygen Accelerator Startup accelerators are a modern, for-profit type of startup incubator, with an open application process. • Usually 3 months program (very intensive) • $ 15–40k for 5-10% equity • Support, mentoring, funding, events
5. The roadmap • August 2011: project started • Application Development • Alpha & Beta release • Summer 2012: appliance to Oxygen Accelerator • October 2012 – January 2013: Oxygen Program • Business Development • New Website • Client Libraries • Spring 2013: Fundraising Winning strategies?
7. Quick Startup Agile development with No License Costs
8. What’s the Cloud? Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) that are delivered as a service over a network (typically the Internet). • RackSpace • Amazon Web Services • Google Cloud • Windows Azure • Not just VPS • Not just Cost Saving • Not just Scalability
11. • Home page: http://aws.amazon.com/ • About AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/what-is-aws/ • All products: http://aws.amazon.com/products/ • Dev area: http://aws.amazon.com/resources/ • Documentation: http://aws.amazon.com/documentation/ • SDK: http://aws.amazon.com/code/ • Community: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/index.jspa • AWS Blog: http://aws.typepad.com/ • Events: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/events/ • Services Health Dashboard: http://status.aws.amazon.com/ • Pricing Calculator: http://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/calc5.html
12. Scalable architecture Low startup costs High quality services
13. PHP in UpCloo FrontInstance Sends correlations to the client Or makes a indexing request for new content PHP FrontInstance HTTP Request Correlation Request Index Request ZF, APC, Memcache, AWS SDK
14. PHP in UpCloo Indexer Gets the html page analyzing the content and sending data to the semantic database HTML page Strategy 1 Strategy 2 Strategy 3 Strategy 4 Strategy 5
15. 55$ Low startup costs thanks to PHP & Cloud
16. Why apply to accelerator?
19. Info & Tips • http://www.oxygenaccelerator.com • Over 100 mentors • Up to 21,000 € for 8 % equity • Application Deadline: 31° July 2013 • 1° October – 31° December • Always tell the truth • PHP is a strenght point • Perfect Team: 3 members • Cover all roles • Don’t reinvent the wheel
20. Thank you! Any questions? @gabrielemittica www.gabrielemittica.com