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This Open World MMORPG Is One of BizSpark's New Gaming Startups in Italy
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Meet DiXidiaSoft's newest creation, Realms of Swordfall , a MMORPG. They are our first online gaming company in Italy. Right now they host their gaming servers on Azure, as well as some of their internal management tools, but they have not fully launched...
Bill Gates Keynotes SXSW and Other Things You Will Tell Your Kids One Day
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To start off this bit of news, we recently found out our old commander-in-chief Bill Gates is going to be kicking off SXSW . How's that, hipsters!? From hipsters, we move to entrepreneurs. Namely, the entrepreneurs that have been slamming our Facebook...
Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure -- A Dream of Instant Ambition, Realty Mogul
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When I talked to Jilliene Helman of Realty Mogul I learned that a true entrepreneur is someone who takes the best of herself and makes something for her market. It is something precious and new, and it takes 100% commitment. Jilliene Helman, left...
Why Should a Startup Founder Use Elance? Outsourcing to Grow, A Founder's Experience
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I've heard this question framed in debates online and in offline events. It is as if there is a natural definition of a startup as being exclusively "home grown." If you use anything other than yourself, your laptop, your own team and the funds that you...
By 2020 There Will Be A Billion Entrepreneurs, And They Will be Women
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If you want insight into the next billion entrepreneurs to generate new ideas, disruption and business in the future, here is a great infographic that we found at Funders and Founders . By the year 2020, the "third billion" starts doing business. Have...
Putting the Cafe Meeting in a Browser -- Looking at FreshTag, a BizSpark Member Company
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Guest blog post by Prateek Gupta, founder of FreshTag, an app that connects multiple people by entering hashtags or clicking a link. FreshTag was founded at a San Francisco hackathon in June 2012. Co-founder Ben Denial and I attended it to work on...
Gaming Your Education
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Most students graduate facing the challenge of getting a job, but Chai Botta, the CEO of GameIn this isn’t a problem. He and his co-founders are already running their own successful start-up, with a fast-growing game in the Windows 8 store, even...
The Trust That Builds Awesome -- Socedo Graduates from Accelerator Thinking About the Future
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Kevin Yu, one half of Socedo, tells me that he has an infinite amount of trust in Aseem Badshah, his co-founder. It's something that I hear so often from startup founders that I actually don't pay much attention to it. But then, I go over my notes from...
In the Struggle Is the Product -- Brian Chesky Survived on Dry Cereal and Maxed Out Credit Cards Until Someone Got It
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Last night, we listened to a great evening of stories from Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky . The event was hosted by PandoDaily, and it was the best conversation I have ever witnessed with a founder of a startup . Did you know that at one point Brian was...
BizSpark Member Zirtual Raises $2 Million from Tony Hsieh and Others To Ramp Up Virtual Assistants
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BizSpark member Zirtual is in the news today with founder Maren Kate Donovan securing $2 million in funding from Zappos founder Tony Hsieh and others . We interviewed Maren some time ago for our success stories project. Here is some of that interview...
Why Should I Apply for the Windows Azure Accelerator Powered by Tech Stars?
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The Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, Powered by Tech Stars will have its first of two demo days starting January 17 in Seattle. Then they will move down to Silicon Valley to close out the month with a demo day in front of investors there. If you...
Social Dating Startup Joins Bing Fund - Finds You a Partner Through Social Graph
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LikeBright founder and Microsoft BizSpark member Nick Soman announced that his company had joined the Bing Fund today . In case you missed it, we interviewed Nick a while back . LikeBright uses the Facebook social graph to help you pinpoint people...
Artist or Founder? Are You Telling The Right Narrative To Earn an Audience? by Kahlil Ashanti
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What do artists and start-up founders have in common? There is one rather indiscriminate fact that ties them together: t he constant fight for audience attention. If you don't have an audience, you don't have sells, reputation, or legitimacy. This...
The First Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Demo Day -- Powered by Tech Stars
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Yesterday we wrapped up the Accelerator experience with TechStars in Seattle with our Demo Day. The packed event included more than 400 registered attendees, including 110 investors to watch 10 startups pitch their ventures. The demo day is one of two...
How To Never Give Up, by Funders and Founders
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We subscribe to this great board on Quora for infographics . It turns out that most of those infographics are about startups and the life of entrepreneurs. Because that syncs so well with the life of the community in Microsoft BizSpark, we would like...
The Search for a Business Model -- Being Temporary In a World Desperately Seeking Profitability
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Many people tell me that they have a great idea and that as soon as they get enough customers they will be profitable. That may be true for any startup. But something else makes a startup successful. And that is all about the search. Steve Blank, the...
Score a Date with Big Data Before Valentine's Day
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This will make your geeky little heart skip a beat. So sick and tired of Valentine's Day. Right? If only there was something much more interesting, someone much more captivating, someone who really understood me for me. Someone who knew what it means...
The Most Important Links for Startups from Microsoft BizSpark -- January 29, 2013
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Investors are pointing to a rising M&A trend for the enterprise and startups ecosystem. Windows Challenges are ending, and new contests are beginning. We are still taking applications for the second class of the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure...
Three Node.js Bootcamps Coming to West Coast -- Learn Node.js From the Bottom Up
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Node.js is a server side software system designed for writing scalable Internet applications, notably web servers. Programs are written on the server side in JavaScript, using event-driven, asynchronous I/O to minimize overhead and maximize scalability...