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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 a denizen of NYC for five years, Douglas Crets,...

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 th and 30 th . This interview was conducted...

Why bring one app to market when you can launch 10, 20, even 30? That is the ethos of a dynamic team of young Finnish developers who go by the wonderful name of the Magnificent Eight . As the name might suggest, this is an award-winning team of eight who have known each other since high school and have...

Could be wrong, but I believe investors and startup people are in what you call a deployment period. We are searching out new ways to finance. This blog post was written by Douglas Crets, Community Manager and Social Strategist of the Microsoft BizSpark program. We are mistakenly using the junk...

You can find dozens of sites out there that talk about the financial and operational logistics of building a startup. Does anyone really know the answer? Yes, there are technical things that a business needs to run. But most great businesses grew out of moments of clarity and trial and error. Most great...

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 though some of them are still in full-time education...

Andrew Sullivan is right about the death of print . Newsweek print may be a dead beast in the muck - and for the good. What it means for digital, though, is extremely important. Digital media is about delivering people to people, rather than delivering people to a platform where they have to then imagine...

One of the greatest social equalizers of the modern era was public education, or, education in general. You put people in a system that trained them to think, or taught them ways to approach problems, and you could put them to work and create jobs. This blog post was written by Douglas Crets, Community...

Join us Wednesday, 10am PST as we talk to Syncfusion co-founder Daniel Jebaraj about the perils and promises of building your own tech company. Here is your chance to ask questions of a technical co-founder of a successful tech company. Join the BizSpark Facebook page and then leave your questions for...

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...

Post written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft BizSpark It will go down as BikiniGate. A team of developers flashes images of bikini-clad women on screen during their pitch and Q&A with investors at MEGA Startup Weekend , and one of the investors speaks up. What results is a...