The countdown is over! 🏆
Applications are officially open for Imagine Cup 2027, Microsoft's competition for early-stage startups, presented by Microsoft for Startups: https://t.co/5JJoYCv2vE
Here's what founders need to know. 🧵
#MicrosoftForStartups#ImagineCup
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how to claim $4000 credits for $0
gmail gets rejected they want your own domain and matching work email
domain is ~$10. email is free. one site, three more applications
> buy the domain + get the email
- grab a .com on cloudflare domains (~$10)
- turn on whois privacy
- set up free email (zoho free works)
- add mx/spf/dkim
- create [email protected]
- make a simple 1 page site that loads and explains what you actually build
> google cloud start tier = $2,000
> go to: https://t.co/mIIkxXBQXS
- founded in last 24 months
- working mvp + clear business model
- planning to seek vc
- website domain, email domain, and billing account email must all match
- have your 18 character billing account id ready
- 12 months. a few business days (longer if manual)
> aws activate founders = $1,000 (select up to $5k)
> go to: https://t.co/5vxGaHJCcG
- self funded, pre series b, founded last 10 years
- make a builder id with your professional email
- link an aws account on the paid plan (free tier doesn’t qualify)
- they ask about product, funding stage, company profile
- 5 - 10 business days
> deepgram = $1,000 starter (up to $100k possible)
> go to: https://t.co/r682B4cXWo
- live or launching within 6 months
- make a deepgram account first
- keep your project id handy
- ~1 week review, then 24 - 48 hrs to land
- 12 months
> extra ones worth stacking
- azure self serve: $1k now + $4k after business verification (new azure account)
- cloudflare for startups: bootstrapped tier still exists (~$5–10k range)
- oracle for startups: $500 + 70% off for 2 years
- claude for startups: open to bootstrapped, but the free team + $1k credits are currently over capacity
> things you need to know
- 2k + 1k + 1k = $4k base. azure can push it higher
- google is discretionary. no agencies, consultancies, personal blogs, crypto mining, or token projects against local rules
- aws: count on the $1k. the extra up to $5k is select only
- credits expire. google + deepgram are 12 months. aws dates show in billing
> what not to do
- don’t apply from gmail or free email
- don’t fake a company or park a domain with no site
- don’t apply as an agency, dev shop, or consultancy
- apply != approved. these are for real products, build real products
one domain. matching work email. working site. stack the rest
bookmark this. terms change often. read each page before you apply. good luck.
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I’ve spent the last 2 years in stealth building a new way to train models (RLCD), and a new type of frontier AI model that we are releasing today: Jev
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AFAICT the shortest path to AI-based economic revolution
IIT Bombay Director resigned but this convo will shook the education system 🚨
Girl student - Sir, you don't even know how much pressure is on a student
Shireesh Kedare - Okay, should we make cheating legal for you guys? So that you don't take pressure? We are asked to design papers for students who have the brains to study. For students who came into IIT through 80 percentile. Just because some of you students came through 30 percentile, we can't make the paper that much easy for other students.
Girl student - You are still being shameless sir. This was all your fault
Shireesh Kedare - I am resigning because there was some of my fault. But each one of you children who has ever done cheating should leave this IIT now. I will also ask the watchman to resign just because he couldn't check someone's pant for a mobile phone. All the parents around the world should also resign from their parental duties if they can't raise a studious child. That student feared them, not us. Your parents should be ashamed to send you to IITs when you are not even capable of passing a single exam of IIT.
Sir literally cooked this girl student. He resigned but he made sure to show the world how bad this education system is. Respect +++
This IITB Fiasco is NOT JUST THE END OF Hi-Q EDUCATION IN INDIA BUT "THE VERY END OF THE DREAMS OF VIKASIT BHAARAT BY 2047 OR EVER!!"... Which PM keeps Trumpeting & Parroting!!
YOU SIMPLY CANT EXCEL & COMPETE IN THE WORLD WITH 50% OF YOUR STEM and R&D MACHINERY & MERIT MURDERED BY SUCH ILLOGICAL DRACONIAN LAWS LIKE THE SC/ST ACT!!!
She is 18 built an AI agent with live memory and Anthropic bought it for $2.2M - and at Stanford shared how to repeat it from scratch:
00:40 - how Opus 5 builds an agent with live memory from scratch in 60 minutes
18:44 - the live memory system replaced 500 Anthropic engineers
39:42 - from first agent to $2.2M from Anthropic
after watching I gave Opus 5 one prompt - an agent with live memory appeared in an hour I sent an invoice to Anthropic and got a check for $120k.
save & watch - the article below shows how to build an AI agent with live memory and sell it to Anthropic for $2.2M.