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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
BizSpark Member and DEMO Africa Roundup
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It's time to do a quick roundup of what African entrepreneurs did this past week, while they were building their companies. DEMO Africa ended on Friday, but that won't stop us from running our remaining interviews with some of the participants. ...
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Brazil's Carlos Eduardo Pinto, Pratical One
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BizSpark has grown so big that now it's time to say goodbye to a rather limited blogging strategy. It used to be that we would run a couple of interviews every week and then have guest blogs from about three or four Microsoft staff and some startups each...
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...
People Don't Care About Your Product, They Care About Its Impact On Their Lives
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Rather than help a consumer become more efficient, it's important to help them solve everyday, basic problems in their day. Simple, right? But this is the kind of statement that really bring value to having a mentor. We'd like to introduce another...
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...
DEMO Africa: Natalino Mwenda's Dream Proves Small Iterations Make Huge Impacts
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I've never been to Dar Es Salaam, but I imagine that methodologies that spark innovation there will be just as useful in Germany or in Amsterdam. This is especially true when the broadly-based idea that makes virtually all startups alike is that they...
Getting Ready for DEMO Africa: Our Brief Interview With Collins Mugume, Founder of Meka
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DEMO Africa is only a few days away. So, to get ready, we are showcasing interviews from nearly a dozen we have done with some of the 40 entrepreneurs who are slated to demo or launch at DEMO Africa October 24 . Here is Collins Mugume, founder of Meka...
YouthSpark Update: Startups Create Twice the Value for Economies Like Estonia Than In Other Countries
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If you are going to tinker with robotics, mobile app building and anything that a strong developer toolkit could produce, you are going to want to do it in Estonia, according to this TechCrunch report . Young people who get involved with these projects...
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Arunava Chatterjee, WebWizard Technologies
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BizSpark has grown so large that it now covers over 100 countries and about 50,000 startups. We have recently started a BizSpark Ambassador series , which takes you into the minds of startuppers around the world, and helps you get a view to what is actually...
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...
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...
DEMO Africa: SASA Builds E-Commerce for the Emerging Billions
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Congratulations to SASA Africa, one of five DEMO Lions at DEMO Africa , which wrapped up today in Nairobi. SASA Africa is a BizSpark company managed by Ella Peinovich. We asked Ella some questions about what it is like being an entrepreneur in Africa...
DEMO Africa: Framework One, Doing It In the Cloud in Africa
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Here's an amazing fact about Africa: You can fit nearly all of the land masses of nearly all of the most economically prolific countries in the world INSIDE Africa. See this graphic below, courtesy of a question on Quora. Here's another mind-blowing...
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Vishnu Prasad in Singapore
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To introduce our next Microsoft Ambassador, we turn to Singapore. Vishnu Prasad works for SGTechCamps, based in Singapore, and he is one of the twenty ambassadors we have around the world, who are looking in on the entrepreneurs and developers in his...
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...
A Coming Flud? With Death of Print a Reality, It's Time to Get Granular and Social
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over 2 years ago
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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