TechNet
Products
IT Resources
Downloads
Training
Support
Products
Windows
Windows Server
System Center
Internet Explorer
Office
Office 365
Exchange Server
SQL Server
SharePoint Products
Lync
See all products »
Resources
Curah! curation service
Evaluation Center
Learning Resources
Microsoft Tech Companion App
Microsoft Technical Communities
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Script Center
Server and Tools Blogs
TechNet Blogs
TechNet Flash Newsletter
TechNet Gallery
TechNet Library
TechNet Magazine
TechNet Subscriptions
TechNet Video
TechNet Wiki
Windows Sysinternals
Virtual Labs
Solutions
Networking
Cloud and Datacenter
Security
Virtualization
Updates
Service Packs
Security Bulletins
Microsoft Update
Trials
Windows Server 2012 R2
System Center 2012 R2
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1
Windows 8.1 Enterprise
See all trials »
Related Sites
Microsoft Download Center
TechNet Evaluation Center
Drivers
Windows Sysinternals
TechNet Gallery
Training
Training Catalog
Class Locator
Microsoft Virtual Academy
Free Windows Server 2012 courses
Free Windows 8 courses
SQL Server training
e-Learning overview
Certifications
Certification overview
MCSA: Windows 8
Windows Server Certification (MCSE)
Private Cloud Certification (MCSE)
SQL Server Certification (MCSE)
Other resources
TechNet Events
Second shot for certification
Born To Learn blog
Find technical communities in your area
Support options
For small and midsize businesses
For enterprises
For developers
For IT professionals
From partners
For technical support
Support offerings
For home users
More support
Microsoft Premier Online
Microsoft Fix It Center
TechNet Forums
MSDN Forums
Security Bulletins & Advisories
International support solutions
Log a support ticket
Not an IT pro?
Microsoft Customer Support
Microsoft Community Forums
Sign in
BizSpark Group Blog
Tags
500 Startups
Accelerator
Accelerators
Africa
Ahmed Siddiqui
ambassadors
AngelHack
App Development
Apps
Azure
Berlin
BizSpark
BizSpark European Summit
BizSpark One
BizSpark Plus
BizSpark Summit
BizSparkOne
Business
Cloud
Community
culture
Demo
DEMO Africa
demo day
design
Developer
developers
Development
Disrupt
education
Entrepreneur
entrepreneurs
entrepreneurship
EU summit
Euro Summit
Europe
facebook
founder
Founder Institute
Founder Showcase
founders
Gaming
Germany
GEW
Greg Gopman
Hackathon
hackers
idea
ideas
Incubators
Innovation
innovations
innovators
investment
investors
Ireland
Israel
Kinect
Launch
LeWeb
Marketing
MAW
Media
MediSafe
Microsoft
Microsoft Accelerator
Microsoft BizSpark
Microsoft Innovation Center
Mobile
Online
Partners
Pratical One
Product
RocketSpace
Rockstart
RotaryView
seattle
Seedcamp
Silicon Valley
social media
Software
Soluto
Sonal Mane
Startup
Startup America
Startup Weekend
startups
StartX
sxsw
Tech
TechCrunch
Technology
TechStars
tutorial
uk
Windows
Windows 8
Windows Azure
Windows Phone
Yammer
Browse by Tags
TechNet Blogs
»
BizSpark Group Blog
»
All Tags
»
entrepreneurs
Related Posts
Blog Post:
Notes from FailCon: Why #Fail Could Be Your Biggest Catalyst for Growth
BizSpark Online
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 Manager for Microsoft BizSpark. For information...
on
25 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
The 54 Hour Journey -- Startup Weekend Kirkland
BizSpark Online
Microsoft Technical Evangelist Steve Seow takes us through the 54 hours of glory that go into doing a Startup Weekend and coming out of it with something awesome. And if no product, at least a bunch of great friends. You can get in touch with Steve on Twitter @SteveSeow .
on
14 Nov 2012
Blog Post:
Your Country Needs You! Register to Pitch at Reboot America
BizSpark Online
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 growth lies in feeding innovation. This contest...
on
11 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Manoj Nathwani, Founder of Price Trakker at 17
BizSpark Online
My name is Manoj Nathwani and I founded Price Trakker when I was 17. Price Trakker is basically like a price comparison website. However, instead of tracking prices and feeding the data to the consumer like you or me - the data is fed to the actual company as a B2B service. This means if you are someone...
on
15 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Get Inspired with Startup Weekend Perth's Team Gainspiration
BizSpark Online
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 day. At its heart, an inspiration comes from...
on
9 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Rahul Sood On The Hardest Task for a Founder and Book Club Recommendations
BizSpark Online
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 , we dove into the hardest things Bing Fund general...
on
29 Oct 2012
Blog Post:
Up Global: Startup Weekend and Startup America Form New Partnership to Build Entrepreneurs in a Big Way
BizSpark Online
Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership announced today that they will join together to create UP Global , a new organization supporting the creation of vibrant entrepreneurial communities around the world. With generous support from The Kauffman Foundation, the Case Foundation, Omidyar Network...
on
23 May 2013
Blog Post:
Reduce Startup Taxes and Make Starting Up Easier for European Entrepreneurs -- Alessandro Rizzoli, Founder and CEO of Mopapp
BizSpark Online
Across different countries in Europe, more needs to be done to give start-ups tax reductions during their early years. We are creating new jobs, so it is in the interest of the European economy to help us, because we are the employers of the future. Governments need to take a longer term view. --Alessandro...
on
22 May 2012
Blog Post:
How Startup Weekend Played Out -- The Tweets, Pics, and Video Demos Your Parents Warned You About
BizSpark Online
There was a rush of Startup Weekend events this weekend. Here are a few of the tweets, photos and videos that came in during the events. We love seeing how fast these teams work together to create businesses, hacks, and usable stuff. The pitches were just about to begin in Kirkland: Pitch presentations...
on
12 Nov 2012
Blog Post:
Get To Know a Country Ambassador: Dimitar Georgiev, Founder of Source Realms
BizSpark Online
Microsoft BizSpark has scoured the globe for a group of hot teams on the ground. We are calling these hard-working entrepreneurs our Ambassadors. Because they see things first, and because they know first hand what it feels like to put it all on the line, we asked them to volunteer what they see to show...
on
27 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
4 Major Trends Shaping The Future of Entrepreneurship
BizSpark Online
If you went to South by Southwest this week and were overwhelmed by garish colored posters proclaiming the next big app, then you were not alone. Oddly, it seemed as though there were a lot of pitches and a lot of judgment of those pitches, but that there was not a lot of buzz about any special apps...
on
14 Mar 2013
Blog Post:
Two South African Companies Headed to DEMO Africa After Startup Weekend Cape Town
BizSpark Online
An app that makes it easier for emergency services to connect in the field has won the Startup Weekend in Cape Town, South Africa . The winners will head to DEMO Africa in October to compete and to present in front of a panel of investors, entrepreneurs and other people. Virtual Firehouse’s...
on
5 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
fotojelly Is A PaaS for Your Photo-Sharing During Events
BizSpark Online
FotoJelly is a PaaS whose vision is to make it easier for people to share photos when participating in events & group activities. Our “secret sauce” is in how we incorporate context through location data and integration with event services to increase the value of our content to our user...
on
31 Jul 2012
Blog Post:
BizSpark Members Pitch Their Startups in Less Than 140 Characters
BizSpark Online
Here are today's #BZPitch pitches. When you sign up to Microsoft BizSpark , you are introduced to literally hundreds of thousands of people working on over 50,000 startups. To take advantage of this, sign up. When your application is approved, dive in on Facebook , Twitter, and in LinkedIn. ...
on
6 Jun 2013
Blog Post:
Lise Quintana: Product Building is Storytelling in Quick-Forming Communities
BizSpark Online
Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft BizSpark Lise Quintana is a storyteller and a techie and she introduced me to some concepts this weekend that made me think about building apps in the cloud. You can listen to one of her recent radio interviews, here . I headed down to Santa...
on
24 Apr 2012
Blog Post:
Kevin Zhang -- EachCloud, Microsoft Research and Development Center in Asia
BizSpark Online
EachCloud is a translation tool for the cloud being developed at the Microsoft Research and Development Center in Asia, an accelerator program based in Beijing. It is one of several companies being accelerated in the R&D center, and it is the last of three companies we are profiling on this blog...
on
14 Aug 2012
Blog Post:
M Is For ... The Death of Marketing?
BizSpark Online
There is something strange and beguiling about startup marketing. On the one hand, you shouldn't have to do any marketing at all, right? After all, your product sells and distributes itself by being functional, consumer-centric, or specific to the enterprise problem it solves. You shouldn't HAVE to tell...
on
28 Apr 2013
Blog Post:
Big Data, Big Health and Big Education: Three Reasons to Celebrate in Canada this July
BizSpark Online
In my day job , I have the distinct pleasure of engaging with some of the smartest and most interesting startups in the world. Outside of Microsoft, I am a board member for the Neil Squire Society , a non-profit that uses technology, knowledge and passion to empower Canadians with physical disabilities...
on
13 Jun 2012
Blog Post:
SoundCloud: A Project Manager's Perspective
BizSpark Online
When I was in Berlin two weeks ago, I wanted to know how SoundCloud, the massively popular sound collaboration platform, managed its product development cycle. So, I asked Matas Petrikas, a product manager for html5 apps, some questions about his work. Here is the result: Interview with Matas Petrikas...
on
21 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
Microsoft Developer Evangelist Hackers Enter TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon -- Follow Them on Twitter
BizSpark Online
For the first time ever, Microsoft has entered its evangelists in the Tech Crunch Disrupt Hackathon . You can follow them on Twitter. You can follow this list on Twitter to connect with them: The TechCrunch Disrupt 2012 Microsoft Hackers Or follow their individual tweets. The hashtags are #tcdisrupt...
on
8 Sep 2012
Blog Post:
The Euro Summit for Those Not in Europe -- A Twitter List for Getting Trends Data on Startups on the Continent
BizSpark Online
The European BizSpark Summit starts June 7. We've got a lot going on right now in the run up to the event. There's this People's Choice Awards challenge . We're going to give the People's Choice Award to one of the fifteen companies that gets the most Like votes through Facebook. You can go to this...
on
27 May 2012
Blog Post:
Activating the 'What If': Jerry Reynolds, Founder of Plandree, On Scaling Up Your Entrepreneurial Vision
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 town in Montana who had an idea, then an experiment...
on
20 Apr 2013
Blog Post:
SwitchCam: Perfect Startup Mentor? MacGyver, Obviously
BizSpark Online
Remember how MacGyver used to take pencils, a piece of gum, a mirror shard and an armadillo paw and make a nuclear detonator out of it to escape his captors? Yes, that's how you build a start-up. It's not that far from the truth. Startup founders need a more than a healthy dose of ingenuity -- to...
on
12 Sep 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:
BetaWorks: "A Collection of Things" and Looking Holistically at the Wild West of Social Web
BizSpark Online
In 2011, BetaWorks CEO John Borthwick and his management team gave back $27 million "and then some" to investors, according to a recent TechCrunch Disrupt interview (see below), and then they topped up the tank for another few millions in investment to keep building what is emerging as a suite of media...
on
3 Jun 2013
<
>