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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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Get Inspired with Startup Weekend Perth's Team Gainspiration
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How do you get inspired? Is inspiration random and accidental? I don't think that it is. I think that if you can create a structure, or a source, for finding inspiration, you can then expose yourself to a potential inspiration, or inspirations, every...
Gaining Support for Brazilian Startups, a Brazilian Entrepreneur Tells All
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Startup outlook in Brazil Being an entrepreneur in Brazil is a lesson in how to accept excitement and the roller coaster of dismay, elation, frustration and success. Despite the fact that there’s a lot of local problems (most of them well known...
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...
DEMO Africa: Pieter Nel, CEO, Kuza
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Get firsthand information from one of South and East Africa's up and coming mobile solutions, Kuza Mobile founder Pieter Nel . this guy helped create Africa's largest social network, and now he's on to a mobile e-commerce solution that will help entrepreneurs...
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...
Mix It: Music Sharing and Collaborating Big Theme at #DEMO2012
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So far we've had a guy rap on stage, live, while collaborating with his partner across the country. Then we have this BizSpark company, PlayMyTone, making instant music in less than 30 seconds. Here's a video of the CEO Ohad Sheffer , which he put...
Video: Interview Roundup of BizSpark Companies at #DEMO2012
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We walked around and talked to the founders of some of the incredible BizSpark companies presenting in the pavilion at DEMO Fall. You can get inside information and a free peek at one of the most important conferences for startup, by visiting our live...
Michael Jacobs and Jordan Syms, iSocialite at #DEMO2012
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At DEMO Fall, there were a few trends, but culture as an app was the one that caught my idea. One of the companies tackling startups through culture is DreamWare, helmed by a sociologist and an anthropologist. This post was written by Microsoft BizSpark...
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...
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