April, 2013

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Pay With Bits App is BizSpark Member's Times Square Debut

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Prateek Gupta went out with his TechCrunch Disrupt team to Times Square and found an unsuspecting vendor to try their BitCoin app on. Here is the resulting video of Pay With Bits, which got them named in a TechCrunch article last night . Having been...
What Is the New Ecosystem for Media and Content? John Borthwick of Betaworks Tells All

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
Great interview with John Borthwick of Betaworks, who describes the "unusual" structure of Betaworks and where the idea came from. It's an evolutionary idea of capital and economies. Essentially, Betaworks is an all-in-one, in-house assembly line for...
How BizSpark Speaks In Many Countries at Once -- It's About Listening

Posted over 1 year ago

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If you have not seen the work done by the folks at NodeXL , you need to check out how they piece together the fragmented ongoing conversations on the social web and put together very strong graphical images of those conversations. Like this one here....
Women Who Launch -- Meet Maren Kate Donovan of Zirtual and Rebekah Iliff of AirPR

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
Some of you have probably seen our growing interview series, Startuplandia , where we interview founders, VC investors, and developers in Silicon Valley and the world. We focus on the decisions and the thinking that goes into building up killer products...
Speek No Evil: Meet Speek Co-Founders at TechCrunch Disrupt NY Today

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This is part two in a series of blog posts and interviews about Microsoft BizSpark companies that will be presenting at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Here is an interview with John Bracken, CEO and Co-Founder of Speek , one of the easiest teleconferencing apps...
Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Announces Its New Class for 2013

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The new class for Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure just launched. According to Scott Guthrie , a Corporate Vice President in the Microsoft Server and Tools Business , we started the first Azure Accelerator because we wanted to give promising startups...
Mid-Week Social Conversations -- Bionic Medicine, Context Retailing on Azure, and the new Microsoft Accelerator Class in Seattle

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Here's this week's Tint Up, a little bit late this week because of travel. Here are all the popular conversations on our community page in Facebook. Please join us . rss widget
Israel Microsoft Accelerator Opens Applications for Third Class

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
The 13 companies that the Israel Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure selected for the second batch are already hard at work preparing for their demo days in Israel and Silicon Valley, and the team in Tel Aviv is now looking for the next batch of trail...
First Person: Marios Karagiannis, Student Entrepreneur & Windows Phone Developer

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
What drives a successful start-up? A lot of things, but it definitely needs a founder (or founders) who are really passionate about what the business is doing. After all, when times are tough and sleep is scarce, having a strong belief in and love of...
Add Your Voice to the Five Most Important Questions Being Asked this Week

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
We do a weekly analysis of the questions -- literally, these are questions -- that are being asked in our networks each week. So far this week, these are the five most important questions, based on how often we have seen them discussed in this form, or...
Nudge Your Way to Better Information With #Nudgemoments

Posted over 1 year ago

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From one of our Microsoft Innovation Centers in Australia comes this new project, led by Emily Easterly. This month the Microsoft Innovation Center in Queensland is kicking off A Nudge Start-Up Moment , in partnership with Nudge Accounting. For...
Startups in Sweden Get Their Very Own Day

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
Startups and entrepreneurs in Stockholm are gathering in force this coming Saturday, 20 th April, at the annual StartupDay . Hosted by the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, over 700 people have already registered to attend the event, being held at...
Join Microsoft BizSpark at TechCrunch Disrupt NY!

Posted over 1 year ago

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Guest blog by Alp Tilev It's that time again! Foot thumping music, party glasses, luxurious cars… are a just a few of things that come to mind when … Oh wait sorry wrong post. Let me try that again: Hackers, ruby on steroids, piles...
Helpful Startup Tips and a Special Offer for Startups from Soluto

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
A special offer from Soluto, and some useful tips from a startup that has grown to scale very quickly.
So You Want to Pitch Your Startup at a Global Event? Here's What You Need to Know

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Start-up competition season is in full swing and a couple of the big ones - the annual TNW Europe and TechCrunch Disrupt NYC – are both coming up later this month (go BizSpark finalists!) So we thought it would be interesting to get some ‘behind...
Activating the 'What If': Jerry Reynolds, Founder of Plandree, On Scaling Up Your Entrepreneurial Vision

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
In your free moments, what do you think about? For many people there is a lingering idea, an interest attached to a "what if". What separates the average person from an entrepreneur is not genius, it's action. I am an average guy from a small resort...
What are BitCoins Worth? Nothing (And More Wisdom from the BizSpark Community) by Chad Eaves

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
Wisdom comes from experience, they say. We agree. At BizSpark , we try to deliver bits of wisdom now and again to the community so that the founders, developers, engineers, and business folks out there in startup land can use it. We saw four founding...
Microsoft Germany Offers Co-Working Space to Startups During BizSpark Grand Tour

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
Great news from Germany. Our BizSpark team in Germany is now offering free co-working space in Berlin, Munich and Koln to startups that are working on building apps on Windows 8, Windows Phone and Windows Azure. From now until June 2013, right before...
E-Commerce Hope for Your Skeptical Parents?

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
If you are like my parents -- in their early sixties and living in a suburban area of a large Nortwestern US state -- you refuse to shop online because you don't have enough confidence in e-commerce. It's a sad fact that a significant percentage of the...
Need a Job? Startups Are Hiring And They Can't Find Enough Workers, Says Silicon Valley Bank

Posted over 1 year ago

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Silicon Valley Bank released the results of its extensive US and UK-focused Startup Outlook survey today. The result? If you are looking for a job, and you are reasonably endowed with skills in technology, engineering, business development or marketing...
With a Kickstarter Campaign and Windows Phone 8 App Experience, Echoboom Scans Skies for Opportunities

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There are so many games out there that it is very hard to do something new or different, but every now and then, one comes along that just stands out from the crowd with. Spanish start-up Echoboom has done just that, combining unique idea with strong...
Phriz.be Gives Startup Advice: What Do You Do When You Start Your Company With The Wrong Technology?

Posted over 1 year ago

by BizSpark Online
Phriz.be founders Michael Forte and RJ Holmberg created an app that helps you share what's relevant to anyone you like with a literal flick of the wrist. But before you get into the video (at the bottom), we wanted to introduce you to Michael and RJ...
May 2 Live Chat with Yu-kai Chou, Entrepreneur and Gamification Expert

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by BizSpark Online
Yu-kai Chou is an experienced Entrepreneur as well as a Gamification Consultant & Speaker. He has been a regular speaker/lecturer on Gamification at organizations like Stanford University, Google Inc., The Internet Marketing Conference, Draper Richards...
Interview with Yammer CEO David Sacks Starts at 3pm Pacific, April 25

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Feel free to tweet us some questions for our live interview with David Sacks, CEO of Yammer . Tweet @bizspark to let us know you are listening.
Kill Fragmentation. Catch GlideOS at TechCrunch Disrupt NY April 29-30

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This is a part 1 of a multi-part blog series celebrating Microsoft BizSpark startups at Techcrunch Disrupt NY, which starts tomorrow. You can catch GlideOS demoing their awesome Windows 8 app at the Microsoft booth at TechCrunch Disrupt NY on April 29...

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April, 2013

Pay With Bits App is BizSpark Member's Times Square Debut

What Is the New Ecosystem for Media and Content? John Borthwick of Betaworks Tells All

How BizSpark Speaks In Many Countries at Once -- It's About Listening

Women Who Launch -- Meet Maren Kate Donovan of Zirtual and Rebekah Iliff of AirPR

Speek No Evil: Meet Speek Co-Founders at TechCrunch Disrupt NY Today

Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Announces Its New Class for 2013

Mid-Week Social Conversations -- Bionic Medicine, Context Retailing on Azure, and the new Microsoft Accelerator Class in Seattle

Israel Microsoft Accelerator Opens Applications for Third Class

First Person: Marios Karagiannis, Student Entrepreneur & Windows Phone Developer

Add Your Voice to the Five Most Important Questions Being Asked this Week

Nudge Your Way to Better Information With #Nudgemoments

Startups in Sweden Get Their Very Own Day

Join Microsoft BizSpark at TechCrunch Disrupt NY!

Helpful Startup Tips and a Special Offer for Startups from Soluto

So You Want to Pitch Your Startup at a Global Event? Here's What You Need to Know

Activating the 'What If': Jerry Reynolds, Founder of Plandree, On Scaling Up Your Entrepreneurial Vision

What are BitCoins Worth? Nothing (And More Wisdom from the BizSpark Community) by Chad Eaves

Microsoft Germany Offers Co-Working Space to Startups During BizSpark Grand Tour

E-Commerce Hope for Your Skeptical Parents?

Need a Job? Startups Are Hiring And They Can't Find Enough Workers, Says Silicon Valley Bank

With a Kickstarter Campaign and Windows Phone 8 App Experience, Echoboom Scans Skies for Opportunities

Phriz.be Gives Startup Advice: What Do You Do When You Start Your Company With The Wrong Technology?

May 2 Live Chat with Yu-kai Chou, Entrepreneur and Gamification Expert

Interview with Yammer CEO David Sacks Starts at 3pm Pacific, April 25

Kill Fragmentation. Catch GlideOS at TechCrunch Disrupt NY April 29-30