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Why these big Corporates like Reliance, Tata, Birla showing interest in startups now
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Why these big Corporates like Reliance, Tata, Birla showing interest in startups now

One of Reliance Industries' offices in suburban Mumbai became unusually busy last week. The Reason: a second batch of 10 startups joined the country's largest private firm's four-month acceleration programme, run in partnership with Microsoft Ventures, to help them scale up operations through mentoring and infrastructure support in exchange of technology and ideas. A month ago, a similar initiative was launched by Aditya Birla Group, albeit at a smaller scale. Big Indian family business houses, some of which were still debating whether it's worth foraying into the digital space till about a year ago, are now busy chalking out and implementing strategies to join the digital economy and get leverage from the ongoing startup boom. If you look at the history of conglomerates in the last ...
first 5 steps to building your own SaaS application by Mukund Mohan
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first 5 steps to building your own SaaS application by Mukund Mohan

This post is for non-developer founders who want to build a SaaS application. Before writing about 5 steps to make SaaS application it's important to know about "What is Saas?" SAAS, or "Software as a Service" in general refers to a software application which is hosted by a provider on their own servers, but accessible to users across the Internet. In other words when using a SAAS application the data and functionality that create the user experience are being delivered from the provider's servers and not installed locally in the user's own computer or intranet and users could help to keep the cloud protected through saas monitoring tools. SAAS solutions have benefits both for the provider (infrastructure is one place, no need to support many OSs, can upgrade services to all users ...