Two things stand out from this interview. One is that if you are a startup, you are "a thesis that has yet to be proven." The other is a question. Is Facebook marketing a waste of time, or is it really just a great opportunity that lacks enough metrics...

The BizSpark startup of the day is Huddle.net, based in the UK. You will find below an interview with Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin, Co-founders of Huddle.net. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the day! Website: www...

The BizSpark startup of the day is Vizua. Below you will find an interview with Dean Lester, CEO and co-founder of Vizua. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website: http://www.vizua3d.com/ Image 1.1: Regular...

BizSpark first met Danny Boice, co-founder of Speek , the app that should solve all of your conference call quibbles forever , when he came to our livestream show at SXSW. Boice is a very large, bearded, tattoed gentleman, who dropped out of Harvard University...

Timely is a cloud-based appointment management system for any SME requiring scheduling of their staff and services. Here is an interview with Andrew Schofield, the Co-founder of Timely. BizSpark: Tell us who you are and your role in the company...

Meet the self-proclaimed RedHat for eCommerce, a French company working closely with Microsoft partners to build eCommerce solutions on Drupal. The Commerce Guys won the BizSpark Euro Summit title for Most-Promising Startup . They won, partly, because...

Remember when you used to get leaves of loyalty coupons in the mail? You felt special. But then you probably felt annoyed. There is a solution to that, though. And it's called loyalty going digital. When Patrick Setzer, CEO of bonusmagnet , told us about...

The company of the day is Komola UG, based in Germany. Their mission is to create useful apps which are fun to use. You will find below an interview with Thomas Schaaf, Co-founder of Komola UG. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of...

Interview with Riitta Raesmaa, Co-founder of Sopima. Web site: http://www.sopima.com/ . Tell us who you are and your role in the company: I’m co-founder of the company and responsible for the product marketing. I also blog about both personal...

Interview with Naty Namdar, CTO of Linkury. Web site: www.linkury.com . Tell us who you are and your role in the company: CTO. What is your company’s mission? The Linkury Smartbar makes information actionable, efficient and profitable...

Interview with Lior Maimon, CEO of Stagee . Web site: http://stagee.com/ Tell us who you are and your role in the company: I am Lior Maimon, CEO of Stagee. I co-founded the company with Ofer Zelig, our CTO. I've been in the startup game for...

Meet SubtleData , a company helping app developers to easily connect their mobile applications with Point of Sale systems. Check out our interview with Richard Bagdonas, founder and CTO of SubtleData: Richard Bagdonas, Founder and CTO of SubtleData...

It's a good thing we have a company like Distil on the web. The web is so open, and so free, that you never really know what you are going to get when it comes to marketing on the internet. Let me explain. You got yourself and three friends together...

At Microsoft BizSpark , we are dedicated to showcasing startups that impress us with how they try to change old industries and business habits. We use this blog to showcase their business views and the work they have done to solve critical problems. We...

The BizSpark startup of the day is MyWebCareer, based in the US. Below you will find an interview with Greg Coyle, Co-founder of MyWebCareer. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website: www.mywebcareer.com ...

Perhaps the biggest question for any company -- from small startup to big corporate brand -- is how do you get ROI from social media? Correction and Addition We originally published this article by misstating the date Thuzi released their Windows...

I sat down and spoke with Tyler Griffin, Co-Founder and CEO of Mobilligy , an app that makes it super easy to pay bills while avoiding fees and controlling expenses. As more and more people use mobiles to do their computing away from the desk, or away...

Interview with Patrick Pecorilli, CEO and Co-Founder of Virtual Process. Web site: www.virtual-process.com Tell us who you are and your role in the company: CEO and Co-Founder. What is your company’s mission? To introduce a paradigm...

It turns out that if you track a person's reading speed, and then match that speed with a song played at a pace with the reading, a person will comprehend more and retain more. This is what Paul Cameron, CEO of Booktrack, discovered with research from...

When we first met Al Bsharah and Bryan Hall, co-founders of embarke , it was in Seattle, and they were just getting ready to wrap up their time at the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, powered by TechStars. For being bright and sunny San Diego...

The BizSpark startup of the day is Playmysong, based in Finland. Below you will find an interview with Rami Korhonen, CEO and Co-founder of Playmysong. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Web site: www.playmysong...

The BizSpark startup of the day is Zeeyoo, based in Switzerland. You will find below an interview with Roger Gygli, founder and CEO of Zeeyoo. All the best to them and congrats for being the startup of the day! Website: www.zeeyoo.com . Interview...

Benjamin Nitschke is the CTO of MobileBits and the CEO of Delta Engine, which is trying to bring a multiplatform game engine to mass market. But more interestingly, Nitschke is creator of the first commercial .NET game, Arena Wars. Nitschke also writes...

Here's the best thing about our interview with Alexey Petrov, co-founder and CTO of penxy -- he told us to stop worrying about the interview and said that it was important that startups just use Microsoft BizSpark to start their business. Seems a fair...

The BizSpark startup of the day is Fitting Reality. Below you will find an interview with Inga Nakhmanson, CEO & Co-Founder of Fitting Reality. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website: http://fittingreality...