By Alon Novy, Founder & CTO, Liaise What a week it has been! This Monday, as we arrived at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus to compete with 6 other Microsoft BizSpark partner startups at SharePoint 2010 SocialFest, I confess that our motto...

By Alpa Agarwal Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 . In this article...

By Alpa Agarwal Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 . Cortex Intelligence...

This post has been written by Loic le Meur (@Loic), Loic is the founder and CEO of Seesmic, a software company that makes one of the most popular Twitter and Facebook social software clients. Loic also founded and hosts the #1 tech event in Europe, LeWeb...

By Cliff Reeves For the past year or so I’ve been working with a team at Microsoft on a project named BizSpark , which we launched worldwide starting on Nov 5th, 2008. BizSpark is the second in a family of programs designed for early-stage...

By Alpa Agarwal Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event lead by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 . Leverage...

Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 . Huddle , a London, UK-based software...

By Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO, Leverage Software I'm Joseph Kleinschmidt, CTO of Leverage Software -- we're an on-demand social networking platform that companies use to connect their employees and customers with one another. We tend to be particularly...

The Microsoft SharePoint 2010 SocialFest was a very code-intensive week for the Calinda software development team. We arrived at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus at 8AM, coded non-stop until 10PM, just to drive back to the hotel and resume coding...

By Alpa Agarwal I’ve just read some cool news about Microsoft BizSpark startup Sopima: Of the dozen Finnish companies competing in the March 24, 2010 semi-final of the Innovate!100 Pitch Slam competition in Helsinki, Sopima Oy was chosen as the...

By Alpa Agarwal Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest , an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 . ...

By Alpa Agarwal Arbetsförmedlingen, Sweden’s government-run employment agency, has developed a new ‘match-making’ service to connect job applicants with potential employers. Microsoft and its BizSpark partners have worked closely...

By Alpa Agarwal SXSW , MIX10 and DEMOSpring are exciting opportunities for you to meet the members of the Microsoft BizSpark team and to connect with the founders of several innovative BizSpark startups. We’ve got a variety of fun activities...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation How One Thing Leads to Another One thing leads to another. Those are actually lyrics from a popular song in the '80s: “you told me something...

By Alpa Agarwal SXSW is an exciting opportunity for you to meet the members of the Microsoft BizSpark team and to connect with the founders of several innovative BizSpark startups. We’ve got lots of fun BizSpark activities at SXSW lined up...

By Jim Hsia, Loqu8 VP Marketing Loqu8 was founded on an innovative learning paradigm called “augmented learning.” Instead of traditional rote memorization or simulated learning, the company developed an engine to instantly show related...

By Alpa Agarwal In the spring of 2005, Sam Altman, a sophomore computer science major at Stanford, had an epiphany as he walked out of class. Turning to his friends, classmates, and eventual co-founders Alok Deshpande and Nick Sivo, Sam asked, “Wouldn...

By Alpa Agarwal icrosoft Sharepoint 2010 SocialFest, an event led by the Emerging Business Team of Microsoft in Silicon Valley, will feature seven startups who are building social-oriented applications on Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 . Ed Buchholz...

By Cliff Reeves I was proud to be a presenter at the Washington Technology Industry Association’s Industry Achievement Awards on February 24 th . The event was a lively one, well attended, and held at Showbox SODO, showcasing so much innovation...

By Alpa Agarwal Piryx, non-profit Startup Weekend and Microsoft BizSpark will hold a fundraising get-together for Haiti, Piryxtopia Charity Bash , at SXSW. Piryx, a global social fund-raising platform, will help by making their service available for...

By Alpa Agarwal It no longer requires a big budget to design, develop and distribute a commercial, online game. Wild Pockets, a spin off from Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center, is democratizing game development and...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation The Answer May Surprise You By now, everyone knows that Microsoft server technologies run at scale. Some of the world’s largest SAP implementations...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation In October, I was interviewed by Om Malik and Joyce Kim about my role in Silicon Valley and how Microsoft works with startups. Some highlights from...

By Ed Buchholz, CEO, Confer Starting a company is a lot of work. Just ask any of the seven companies that attended Microsoft’s SharePoint 2010 SocialFest last week. With solutions ranging from enterprise micro-blogging to email integration to...

Dan’l Lewin, Corporate Vice President, Strategic and Emerging Business, Microsoft Corporation Late last year, I spoke with Andy Plesser , founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and how they related to startups in particular...