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Yes, exactly. The grants start out small (I think the first one was $3k) -- but then once you spend 75% of them you can apply for the next round, which for me
by doomslice 6y ago
Yes, exactly.
The grants start out small (I think the first one was $3k) -- but then once you spend 75% of them you can apply for the next round, which for me they gave me $17k out of a possible $30k based on previous usage. After I spent around $15k for that over the next year I applied again and got $100k.
Just one note though that I already had an MVP that I was running on GCP at the time I applied (but I was within the $300 free credits that I started with so I didn't pay out of pocket).
- alberth 6y agoWhat does GCP get in return. If they give you free credit, do you have to give then equity in your company, do you guarantee them X spend, etc?
- faeyanpiraat 6y agoIf you have enough funds, you might not care about building an efficient architecture, and when the credits run out, you’ll spend more? Also good PR.
- omarhaneef 6y agoIf you hit it big, you’ll spend on their platform for a long time. You don’t have to explicitly promise anything because you’ve built everything around their platform for months/years.
- xur17 6y agoYour future spend. Once you start using them, it would be a decent amount of work to change.
- matwood 6y agoMoving clouds is hard if you use the cloud features. Giving credits to startups is a cheap way to get them locked in for the future.
- kbar13 6y agoprobably vendor lock in
- kateho 6y agomy understanding is that GCP has recently changed their startup programme. I applied a few weeks ago, and had the same bad service as the OP.