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#Microsoft #BizSpark Asks Entrepreneurs to Describe the Glory and the Horror of Solving for Opportunities
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Startup culture. Highs and lows. Dread and exasperation. Glory and elation. What really sucks about running a startup? What do you love? We asked the startup community at our Microsoft BizSpark Facebook Page to take a read on their startup experience...
BikiniGate at #SWBayMEGA -- What It Means to Build an App and Speak for a Culture
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Post written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft BizSpark It will go down as BikiniGate. A team of developers flashes images of bikini-clad women on screen during their pitch and Q&A with investors at MEGA Startup Weekend , and...
#Demo2012 -- Live Stream of the New Disrupters
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A Cloud Curb Service -- Turning a Limousine Service into a Software and Cloud Services Vendor
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When a man running information technology for a limousine company started testing out Windows System Center 2012 cloud feature, he turned his car service company into a company that could help other businesses . The Wall Street Journal has a great...
30 To Launch Kicks Off Its Thirty Day Challenge to Rock Your App In the Azure Cloud, and Maybe Win $4,000
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30 to Launch Opens Today If you haven't heard of this before, prepare to engross yourself in a new opportunity. 30 to Launch -- a thirty day boot camp to get your business-as-an-app up and running in the Azure Cloud, with a chance to win $4,000 while...
#Windows Phone: Building an App Culture and Ecosystem in Education and in E-Reading
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All sorts of guessing and excitement about the new Microsoft investment in Barnes & Noble today . One thing is certain, Microsoft is all about the cloud and putting apps on devices. From the press release: One of the first benefits for customers...
Run a Startup and Need a Partner? Check Out This Map, and Get Going
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Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Bizspark What is the most amazing thing about building a startup? Entrepreneurs tell us that more than anything else, it's the ability to change the world in some way. That's speaking kind of...
Rob Caron: Top Ten #Microsoft Developer Blog Posts for Monday
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Thanks to Rob Caron for posting these great links for developers today . Keep coming back for this information if you are interested in developing on Windows devices or if you currently do develop using Microsoft products and software. Jason...
Microsoft #BizSpark Teams with #Startupbootcamp Amsterdam
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Startupbootcamp Amsterdam, the Dutch branch of the pan-European startup accelerator programme, is teaming up with Microsoft® BizSpark® . The latter will support the Amsterdam programme by allocating products, software services and organisational...
@HashTip Is a Way to Get Instantaneous Tips -- and Coupons -- When You are Out
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Your friends are really good at telling you what to wear, or whether your hair looks good in the morning. Why wouldn't they be good at giving tips at all the places you need to go to, or for the restaurants you want to eat? HashTip gives you instantaneous...
#Microsoft Azure Accelerator is a Catalyst for Boosting Startups -- Inside a #Microsoft Incubator
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People think that software engineers just sit around and solve problems. The truth is, no problem really becomes a problem unless there is some human interaction in the real world that highlights the friction between the human and that difficulty. ...
A Soluto for Azure: How An Israeli Social IT Startup Moved to Microsoft Azure
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An Israeli startup called Soluto switched to Windows Azure to help it deliver Soluto to more than 3 million PCs worldwide, maintain its market momentum, and uncap its business potential. That's what happens when you win Tech Crunch Disrupt and people...
Wappwolf Is Wawesome -- An Automated File Workflow Process
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Pun aside, Wappwolf is based at Rocketspace on Fremont Street in San Francisco . Roland Trimmel, who is from Austria, manages the marketing and strategy for the company. He is here in this video with the team, also from Austria. They have an automation...
#DEMO2012 -- From the Floor, Startups That Help You Share Media, Find Burritos and Flee Emergencies
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We went around over the past two days and asked entrepreneurs at DEMO 2012 what they were here to get done. Here are some videos of four of the entrepreneurs we found who are trying to build new companies and services for the people. Rohit Vashisht...
Launch: Silicon Valley Wants Your Entrepreneurial Genius -- Applications Open Today for its June 5 Event
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If you are a dreamer and an entrepreneur, and if you think that solving problems and making life better for millions of people is your idea of fun, then you need to apply for this next epic Launch event put on by Silicon Valley Forum. Launch: Silicon...
#SWBayMEGA Leader Ahmed Siddiqui Tells Us to Learn to Code During #DEMO2012
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By: Ahmed Siddiqui, Startup Weekend San Francisco Bay Area Coordinator & Founder of Go Go Mongo! It seems like getting a technical co-founder is all the rage here in Silicon Valley. You have an awesome idea, and you have a killer application...
Roboticists Do It Better -- At Startup Weekend, Assembling Code and Mechanics in Meat Space
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Robots are suddenly becoming a very attractive startup idea. Startup Weekend showed us that app development is a topical area that is chock full of ideas, but not well populated with executed business ideas. I will have a post on this later, but startup...
#DEMO2012 TourWrist Proves We Need Structured Memory to Live in the Present
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TourWrist Is Not Just a Panorama Photo App Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist and Editor, Microsoft BizSpark Program TourWrist is an information translator that allows us to gain multiple layers of intelligence from an experience...
#BizSpark Partner Offers Will Keep You Lean, Fast and Scaling Up
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Many of the nearly 50,000 startups hosted on the Azure Cloud may not know how much support and offers Microsoft is giving to those teams. Here is a link that puts it all in one place. BizSpark Partner Offers . Have a great weekend in the cloud.
Putting the spotlight on The Netherlands
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Guest blog by Ruud de Jonge This week sees The Next Web conference taking place in Amsterdam, so it is good timing for our local BizSpark champ, Mark Voermans, to give us an insight into start-ups and entrepreneurship in the country. But first, a bit...
Stanford Shopping Center – Microsoft Store Grand Opening
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After much anticipation, Microsoft Retail Stores opened its 15 th store Thursday at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California. The second Store in the Silicon Valley region was welcomed to the Palo Alto-area by local influencers, executives...
Lise Quintana: Product Building is Storytelling in Quick-Forming Communities
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Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft BizSpark Lise Quintana is a storyteller and a techie and she introduced me to some concepts this weekend that made me think about building apps in the cloud. You can listen to one of her recent...
Saving Trees and Startups - PrintEco, BizSpark, & CloudShare
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Guest blog by Ilana Bercovitz, CloudShare - Interview with Arpan Shah, PrintEco Arpan Shah is co-founder of PrintEco , a Microsoft BizSpark startup company that helps companies and consumers alike save paper and minimize their environmental footprint...
Startup Conversations
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Blog by Steve Seow: On March 16 in Seattle, I partnered with Luis Aburto, CEO of Scio Consulting (a local Azure consulting group) to host Startup Conversations . Pitching in with organizing the event was Red Russak of Startup City with the exquisite...
Microsoft, Nokia and Aalto University team up to create a new wave of mobile start-ups
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Guest blog by Ruud de Jonge When we lifted the hood on Windows Mobile 7 for developers a while back, there was a lot of excitement from the BizSpark startup community here in Europe. While we’d like to think that was just about the quality of...
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