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  • Blog Post: Meet the 1World Online App

    BizSpark Online
    One of our newest members, 1WorldOnline , has a brand new app in the Windows Store . They offer this widget you can put on your site to increase engagement with the brand and also gather collective audience intelligence about the way people think. Here's what it looks like.
    on 12 Nov 2013

  • Blog Post: In China, Building a Startup: PengFei Chen of Atom, Based at Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D HQ

    BizSpark Online
    This is our first interview with one of the participants of one of Microsoft's international accelerators, which is officially called the Microsoft Asia Pacific R&D HQ . We talk with PengFei Chen of Atom, an Azure-based solution that offers corporate services to companies via the cloud. We asked...
    on 11 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Register for Windows 8 Hackathon -- From the Comfort of Your Own Home

    BizSpark Online
    A Windows 8 hackathon will take place this month, but instead of being in one physical location, we are making it virtual, so that anyone, anywhere, can take part in it. It's an online event, so you can code from the comfort of your home. App submissions will be accepted from August 17 - 26. Check...
    on 10 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Jason Calcanis Says Microsoft is Having a Renaissance

    BizSpark Online
    I think Jason Calacanis likes the X Phone, his co-hosts idea to rename the Windows Phone. Calcanis sat down with a couple of dudes (Erik Rannala, founder of Mucker Lab , and Ryan Block ) the other day and the conversation kept swerving over to Microsoft's crazy moves in the market these past few weeks...
    on 11 Jul 2012

  • Blog Post: Reza Alizadeh, Architect Evangelist Wins Facebook Hackathon

    BizSpark Online
    Microsoft's awesome developer evangelist Reza Alizadeh won the Facebook-Heroku hackathon a couple of weeks ago. This was a big deal. Reza went on to TechCrunch last weekend and participated in that hackathon with a team of about four other evangelist . That story is here , and here . We were waiting...
    on 13 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: BizSpark European Summit in London Answers Questions about Building Startups in the Cloud

    BizSpark Online
    Startups and cloud developers face challenging opportunities while building a business in the cloud. Monetization of apps and how to manage talent in a wireless world are among the most important.To bring us through this, Wired UK editor David Rowan will moderate the BizSpark European Summit on June...
    on 8 May 2012

  • Blog Post: SoundCloud: At the Intersection of Community, Product and Design

    BizSpark Online
    Soundcloud , the popular music-sharing platform, integrates community development with product development. This is something every startup in the web ecosystem -- mobile or browser-based -- should be thinking about. For many startups working in the developing markets, there is not a ready and web-hungry...
    on 21 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: Microsoft Helps Break Guinness World Record With Largest Appathon Ever

    BizSpark Online
    From Microsoft in Bangalore, a world record has been broken. "Thousands of developers from all over India and beyond attend Windows AppFest to build apps for Windows 8 and made history by setting a Guinness World Record for the Most Participants in a Software Development Marathon in One Location....
    on 24 Sep 2012

  • Blog Post: Your Tablet Sous Chef -- YumvY

    BizSpark Online
    In the past decade, we have witnessed a steady transition of content and media from our physical world to the online digital one with the most marked transformation happening in books and music. But in the publishing world, there has been a radically absent player in this metamorphosis -- recipe and...
    on 19 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: How MobiWeave Pivoted to a Cloud App by MobiWeave Founder Ash D'Costa

    BizSpark Online
    Mobi Weave was founded to create great User Experiences for Enterprise apps and with our 4.5 star rated BI app on the App Store, we were well on our way to fulfilling that mission. But talking to our customers, we did find some issues that are holding us back. These issues affect most business apps on...
    on 4 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: The Way of the MindSumo Warrior: Guest Post from MindSumo CEO Keaton Swett

    BizSpark Online
    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 a company than the technology being developed...
    on 24 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: BizSpark Startup Shelby.tv Takes Home Overall Winner at TNW, Beating Out Radiation and Snowboarding Apps

    BizSpark Online
    Shelby.tv recently won the The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam . It's a video web app that puts all your social shared videos in one place. Mark Voermans, BizSpark champ in The Netherlands, was at the conference, and he reports on why the judges chose Shelby.tv above all the others. Judges and...
    on 4 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Get Yammer Here

    BizSpark Online
    Startups in Microsoft BizSpark now qualify for Yammer . Get it while the getting is good.
    on 5 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: It’s DEMO Time

    BizSpark Online
    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 critical business relationships, and influence...
    on 1 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: Live Video: Tech Crunch Disrupt in New York City

    BizSpark Online
    There's nothing quite like the smell of the morning air, or hoisting a decaf latte in the hand, and this new blog post that we're throwing up live so that you developers out there can watch TechCrunch Disrupt in its entirety. Microsoft is there, along with several of our team members, including Lindsay...
    on 19 May 2012

  • Blog Post: Michael Jacobs and Jordan Syms, iSocialite at #DEMO2012

    BizSpark Online
    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 community manager Douglas Crets. DreamWare...
    on 2 Oct 2012

  • Blog Post: A Photosynth Look at the First 30 to Launch Windows 8 Workshop

    BizSpark Online
    Evangelist Kevin Ashley took this photo. He used the Photosynth app on the Windows phone to document the first Windows 8 App Challenge we put on in San Francisco . We had about 42 people in the room drinking beer, eating pizza and listening to some design lessons that help developers put their ideas...
    on 5 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: How Someone Took 36 Different Mars Images and Put a Pano on TourWrist

    BizSpark Online
    We hope the Mohawk Guy at NASA sees this. Steve Perry at DEMO Spring 2012 Winner TourWrist has taken 36 separate images from the Mars Curiosity Rover and made a lovely pano that we are showing you here: Perry built a panorama image made from NASA's Mars Rover's self-image taken on August 5 by stitching...
    on 23 Aug 2012

  • Blog Post: Live Stream: iOS Developers Grab Insights on How to Develop for Windows 8

    BizSpark Online
    We're running a live stream of this really fascinating iOS camp for Windows 8 Development . About Big Nerd Ranch BNR is a training company focused on teaching iOS programming languages. They actually started out training Apple developers’ Cocoa API. It’s co-founder, Aaron Hillegass...
    on 13 Dec 2012

  • Blog Post: BizSpark Member Zirtual Raises $2 Million from Tony Hsieh and Others To Ramp Up Virtual Assistants

    BizSpark Online
    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 again. What was the most difficult challenge...
    on 14 Jan 2013

  • Blog Post: First-Ever EU AppCup Competition Yields Windows 8 Innovations

    BizSpark Online
    If the discussions over the coffee breaks were any indication, delegates at the annual IAMCP Summit in Brussels all seemed to agree it was a great success, but for me the highlight was the first-ever EU AppCup competition. This post was written by Soha Hohnecker, Software Startup Lead at Microsoft...
    on 20 Mar 2013

  • Blog Post: What is the Startup Weekend Global Startup Battle?

    BizSpark Online
    Developers have been asking me about what Microsoft BizSpark will do to get more developers and startup people together around the world. Well, it turns out our partners at Startup Weekend have more than we had bargained for. I didn't know what it was, but I kept seeing this awesome graphic about the...
    on 12 Nov 2012

  • Blog Post: Speek Launching Windows Phone App Before Android to Jump on Huge Downloads Probability

    BizSpark Online
    Speek.com, a platform for easy conference calls , started as a way to permanently rid the world of PINs and elevator music. As corporate employees, founders Danny Boice and John Bracken were fed up with how stale business communication was, and set out to re-think an industry that hasn't seen innovation...
    on 26 Feb 2013

  • Blog Post: Reshma Sohoni: "Don't Divorce Mobile and Desktop" -- They Need Each Other

    BizSpark Online
    Tomorrow is the first day of the BizSpark Euro Summit 2012 . To prepare, we asked a few of the judges some questions about startups, mobile and the culture of apps. We caught up with Reshma Sohoni, who is one of the co-founders of SeedCamp. Here's what she had to say about what she looks for as a judge...
    on 6 Jun 2012

  • Blog Post: Interview With WangJun -- iTestin App, Windows Azure Accelerator in China

    BizSpark Online
    Here is part two of the series on startups coming out of some incubators in three countries -- China, India, and Israel. We sat down with WangJun of iTestin App, an app that helps developers test their code simultaneously while building it. I thought that the environment of the Testin office was really...
    on 13 Aug 2012