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Jason Calcanis Says Microsoft is Having a Renaissance
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I think Jason Calacanis likes the X Phone, his co-hosts idea to rename the Windows Phone. Calcanis sat down with a couple of dudes (Erik Rannala, founder of Mucker Lab , and Ryan Block ) the other day and the conversation kept swerving over to Microsoft...
Your Questions About Bing Fund Answered
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Here is a simple Q&A about the just announced Bing Fund. We are providing these answers for you to help keep you informed. 1. What is Bing Fund? Bing Fund is an angel incubator founded by entrepreneurs, sponsored by Bing, and backed by...
The Next Big Enterprise Software Play Eats Zombies -- Look at RedCritter
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Sitting in your office? Look around. Notice anything weird? That guy chewing on brains? A whole host of new gamification companies are trying to zap zombies at the office, so that project managers can focus more on productivity and less on brainsssss...
Microsoft Accelerator: Seattle Pretty Much Just Blew Up With Startup Goodness
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Whew. That's over. That was some crazy Microsoft Accelerator for Kinect Business that just went down last week. Here's a review of it, if you have not seen anything about the eleven companies that demo'd their work at the Demo Day on Friday. Step into...
A Complete View of the Azure Deployment
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What does Azure deployment mean to you? Right now, Azure is being rolled out through several countries. If you have questions about it and how you can build your solutions on the Azure platform, you should watch this video, which gives a concise summary...
Founder Institute Hosts Founder Showcase at Microsoft -- And Here's What It's Like to Work with BizSpark Plus
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Update: Adding this email that just came in that gives some new information about the Showcase discussed in the previous post: The Founder Showcase is less than a week away, and tickets are almost sold out. As a loyal customer, you get 25% off using...
This Year's Olympics Will Be App-Ready
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You're probably going to be at work for most of the Olympics, so how are you going to watch the Sychronized Swimming, or without ducking into the break room every fifteen minutes to get your 4X400 hurdles fix? One of our BizSpark members, Intelli-Focus...
Carlos Eduardo and Pratical One: Creating Your First Cloud-Based Logistics Data Company
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How does a brand new logistical data company get up and running in Microsoft BizSpark? Turns out you can use a little bit of searching on the web, and depend on your business savvy partner to get ahead. But it's not easy. Many people in parts of the developing...
Being a Social Do-Gooder Means You Still Have to Run a Business -- How Desiree Vargas Wrigley Raises Capital
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How does Desiree Vargas Wrigley, founder of GiveForward, raise capital? It must be particularly different for social good startups, since they traditionally work in a low scale market, or so people think. Our friends at TechCocktail caught up with...
Soluto Accepts Partner of the Year Award
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Tomer Dvir from Soluto reaches epic proportions! These shots were sent in by our colleagues in Toronto, who are at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference. Today they gave the award for Partner of the Year to Tomer Dvir, and by the looks of the...
Founder Showcase Only Three Days Away -- Meet Windows 8
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If you are sitting hunched over your laptop trying to disrupt, you are probably not only puzzling out coding problems, but from a business angle you are trying to figure out how to crack the funding cipher. Every once in a while great events come along...
India Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Picks 11 Startups for First Class
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After reviewing the pitches of the top 20 startup applicants for the India Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure , the judges have decided on the first class. The team in India wrote this blog post yesterday to announce the winners: The competition...
Watch the AngelHack Finals Tonight Via Ustream
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In case you wanted to find out who will win the nation-wide AngelHack contest, look no further than here. We are streaming it live on the site when they begin in a few hours. And here is the direct link to the Stream. Tune in from 6pm to 9pm tonight...
Doing Good Things for Startups, Who Do Good Things for People, Who Do Good for Everyone's Future
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We've been engaged in a little bit of diplomacy lately. Claire Lee, who is in charge of partnerships for the Emerging Business Team that houses BiZSpark, is in Washington, DC today at the 2012 Global Diaspora Forum discussing how to make connections to...
The Last Mile Does Not Give Up on the Forgotten
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This video details the very first startup Demo Day at San Quentin Prison, the very first to ever happen in a California State Correctional Facility. Could this start a new economy? Could we see a new trend where people who really do want to fund...
fotojelly Is A PaaS for Your Photo-Sharing During Events
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FotoJelly is a PaaS whose vision is to make it easier for people to share photos when participating in events & group activities. Our “secret sauce” is in how we incorporate context through location data and integration with event services...
Join the New York City 500 Startups Demo Day -- Streaming Today on BizSpark
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The best way to get information that can help your startup is to watch Demo Days like the one we're running right now on this blog for the 500 Startups Demo Day in New York City. Too bad we can't be there right now. 500startups on livestream...
Steve Ballmer On Stage at Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto.
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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, talks to thousands of partners in Toronto this morning. Here's a link to the live feed . You can also track the conversation on Twitter, by following the #WPC12 hashtag. You'll get a lot of interesting inside information...
DEMO and State Department in Roadshow to Tap Entrepreneurial Talent in Africa
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Microsoft BizSpark is priming entrepreneurs in Africa for a massive startup conference we are doing with Nokia, State Department and our partners DEMO in late October. Registration opened yesterday for two events going on in Kampala and Dar es Salaam...