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Is Microsoft BizSpark Real? The Startups Who Email Us Know It Is
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When Microsoft first offered me a job at Microsoft to help them manage 50,000 startups that had joined Microsoft BizSpark for the free software and the community support, I had to admit, I wasn't sure what to think. but I talked to the woman who would...
Your Country Needs You! Register to Pitch at Reboot America
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If you are a startup founder who wants to contribute to an improving economy, you can pitch at Reboot America , an inaugural event created by the folks at Startup America . Though the economy is creeping along slowly, our best chance for great economic...
Startup Rx: How Do We Get to Healthcare Technology Innovation? A Prescription from BizSpark Startup MiMedication
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Being a start-up is never easy but some markets are particularly challenging. The healthcare sector is arguably one of these, because of the (understandably) often complex layers of legislation and scientific validation required, so adoption of new innovation...
Sweden's IT Girl of the Year Explains the Sweden Startup Scene -- Students, Students, Students
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Helping students to become the next generation of start-ups is a huge area of focus within Microsoft right now. So our new lead for start-ups and student projects for Microsoft in Sweden – Therese Thorstorp – is a great fit, not just because...
Prevent Bureaucratic Snafus with ID2Doc, a Bulgarian Disruption
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A startup founder in Bulgaria is trying to make it easier for you to transfer information from ID and other public record documents to paperwork, so that you don't make costly mistakes that waste your time, and get bureaucrats all in a kerfluffle. ...
A Coming Flud? With Death of Print a Reality, It's Time to Get Granular and Social
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Andrew Sullivan is right about the death of print . Newsweek print may be a dead beast in the muck - and for the good. What it means for digital, though, is extremely important. Digital media is about delivering people to people, rather than delivering...
How Developers Can Keep from Losing their Data in the Fog of Coding: AppFog founder Lucas Carlson Explains
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Lucas Carlson is a magician and developer who lost ten years worth of projects when his server melted down. His solution is a little bit of cloud magic. He came up with AppFog , a Microsoft BizSpark company, which reduces time and helps developers...
Meet the Winners of the New York Tech Meetup Windows 8 Hackathon: Purpella
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The Windows 8 launch is right around the corner and recently Microsoft and New York Tech Meetup teamed up to host a workshop and hackathon @WeWork Lounge in NYC. This blog post was written by Neha Bhaskar , SR CHANNEL & ECOSYSTEM Marketing Manager...
In Dublin’s Fair City Web Startups Rule
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Tech entrepreneurship just got sexy. Fresh from the Web Summit in Dublin (or not-so-fresh given the myriad parties that went alongside DWS), it's time to reflect on the state of entrepreneurship in Europe. And it’s in a fine state. This post...
Analytics for Your Apps, Even in Offline Mode
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MarkedUp, which offers analytics to mobile apps makers, is going after the growing Windows 8 apps market by offering a mobile apps analytic tool that will even tell you what your app is doing in people's hands when they are sitting in an airplane, or...
Death Is Real, Your App Better Have Meaning
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Death is an easy metaphor, because it's so huge, and it commands attention. And tech reporting uses it. A lot. But what if you, like, really die? What perspective does that bring you? This post is written by Douglas Crets, the Community Manager...
The Way of the MindSumo Warrior: Guest Post from MindSumo CEO Keaton Swett
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In a place like Silicon Valley, it can sometimes feel like companies are started simply because it’s the thing to do. Just as beanie babies were all the rage during my middle school years, I’ve met founders more enamored with the idea of starting...
Notes from FailCon: Why #Fail Could Be Your Biggest Catalyst for Growth
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We work and live in a startup culture that prizes money, funding, success over things like failure, which is actually one of the most important things that can happen to a founder or a developer. This blog post was written by Douglas Crets, Community...
Live Stream of the Windows 8 Launch in New York City
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We are covering the live stream of the Windows 8 launch in New York City right here.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Opens DEMO Africa 2012
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She was not there live, but this is the video she sent in to DEMO Africa , which opened very early this morning in Nairobi. She believes, like we do, that innovation in Africa means great things for the rest of the world. Watch the video and if you have...
On November 1, Your Startup Goes to Eleven
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Have you heard of Rockstart Accelerator? Whoa, boy. Why not? On November 1, one of the most successful Accelerators -- by number of startups receiving funding after the demo day -- will be opening its applications for another year of awesome. from...
Interview: BizSpark Startup Submittable Exits Y-Combinator Seeking 1 Million Customers
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This BizSpark company just finished a term with Y-Combinator and is actively working with large clients in the media space as they scale to 1 million customers. We asked their CEO, Michael Fitzgerald, a few questions about their experience as a team running...
In Russia, Using Azure to Turn Your Daily Blog Reading into a Paper Route
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For the Russian speakers out there, here's a very handy series on how BizSpark members AtContent tweaked and worked with Windows Azure to get their company up and running . People who don't read Cyrillic can translate in Bing and enjoy the useful experience...
BizSpark Members Make Up 30% of Dave McClure's Fifth Class at 500 Startups
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Dave McClure's 500 startups announced their new class today , and since 9 of those 33 teams are members are BizSpark teams, we have reason to celebrate. Percentage-wise, Microsoft BizSpark members made up nearly 30% of those teams. Here's a rundown...
DreamIt and Microsoft Help Startups Dream, Then Do
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I was first introduced to Arie Abecassis, one of the Managing Partners at DreamIt Ventures, back in June this year. At the time, we were doing our bit to support DreamIt programs on the ground in NYC and Philly, a little in Israel, but Arie was keen to...
Commerce Guys Creating Easy to Use Drupal E-Commerce, on Azure
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We're running this blog post today to look back at the BizSpark EU Summit which we hosted in the UK. The startups we featured there were in the running for awards at the Summit. If you were following along, you may remember that one of the teams from...
Rahul Sood On The Hardest Task for a Founder and Book Club Recommendations
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When you are building your company, you always end up facing that one hardest thing, or a myriad of hardest things. Every founder has experienced it, and if they haven’t, they really haven’t been a founder. At the most recent FailCon event...
Announcing the Launch of Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure
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We’ve decided that offering accelerator classes for startups using Microsoft resources will not be a fad. Starting today, we are launching the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure. All that means is that for the next 13 weeks, ten startups from...
It’s DEMO Time
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DEMO Fall starts this week and as before, the Microsoft BizSpark team is heading to Santa Clara with a group of BizSpark Startups and our friends from Startup America. DEMO serves as a launchpad for companies, helping them secure venture funding, establish...
DEMO Africa Super Stars: Alison Jacobson, CEO, Firestring
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Meet Alison Jacobson, CEO of Firestring , one of the DEMO Africa Final 40 set to pitch at the event on October 24-26 in Nairobi . Here's her pitch for Firestring, as found on the VC4 Africa site : Firestring is a technology company leading the field...
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