Students and Startups

My 1st blog post in a while and a good time to discuss some of the changes you’ll notice around here.  This year I’m going to be focusing a lot more on Academia and what we refer to as the Local Software Economy.  Basically this means I’ll spend a lot more time with students and professors and also on promoting entrepreneurship (I’m going to misspell this at least 100 times this year) in the Gulf.  So there’ll be a little less architecture and a little more research focused, student focused and a lot more on jobs and start-ups.  Working with universities this past month has made me realize how much I miss school and learning in general and working with start-ups is going to be great, takes me back to my roots, maybe I can live vicariously through them :)  If you’re a start-up in the Gulf, drop me a line and let’s talk, there’s a huge amount of help Microsoft can provide, I’ll be posting about some of these here on the blog in the near future.