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APPLY for Microsoft Ventures Accelerator - Berlin
Apply now for the 2nd batch of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Berlin Are you an early-stage...
Date: 05/05/2014
Windows 8 Apps That Should be On Your End of Year List
The holidays are here, and that means one thing: you are not going to be doing much work. We hope....
Date: 12/24/2013
Updates: Coreinfo v3.21, Disk2vhd v2.0, LiveKd v5.31
Coreinfo v3.21: CoreInfo is a command-line tool for reporting processor topology, NUMA performance,...
Date: 12/19/2013
Join BizSpark for a Studio Taping of The BizSpark Show with Special Guest Joni Cobb, PIPELINE CEO
Join a studio filled with Silicon Valley's Microsoft BizSpark members via our Livestream on Monday,...
Date: 12/05/2013
Meet the 1World Online App
One of our newest members, 1WorldOnline, has a brand new app in the Windows Store. They offer this...
Date: 11/12/2013
Updates: RAMMap v1.32, Sigcheck v2.01
RAMMap v1.32: This fixes a bug in v1.30 that caused RAMMap to fail on Windows 8. Sigcheck v2.01:...
Date: 11/01/2013
Update: RAMMap v1.31
RAMMap v1.31: This update fixes a bug in v1.30 that caused RAMMap to fail on Windows 8.
Date: 10/28/2013
Updates: PsExec v2.0, RAMMap v1.3, Sigcheck v2.0
PsExec v2.0: PsExec, a popular utility for executing processes on remote systems, introduces a new...
Date: 10/23/2013
WHO, first…then HOW MUCH: Investment Advice from DEMO
This morning at DEMO Fall 2013 in Santa Clara, Erick Schonfeld (@erickschonfeld), Executive Producer...
Date: 10/16/2013
Microsoft Developers Capture Third Place at Tech Crunch Disrupt Hackathon
By the time TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2013 was over this weekend, five Microsoft developer...
Date: 09/09/2013
Special SlideShare Offer for BizSpark Members: "The Startup Of __________" on Twitter #mystartupstory
Every person, product, team and company started somewhere. What's that story? What were your...
Date: 08/15/2013
Windows 8 Store Application Development Simplified, by Sonal Mane
Welcome to the ‘Windows 8 Store Application Development Simplified’ series. In meeting...
Date: 08/12/2013
Autoruns v11.70, Bginfo v4.20, Disk2vhd v1.64, Process Explorer v15.40
Autoruns v11.70: This release of Autoruns, a powerful utility for scanning and disabling autostart...
Date: 08/01/2013
Tracy Lee, CEO, Dishcrawl: Boost Growth Through Strategic Serendipity
We talked to Tracy Lee, CEO of Dishcrawl, a 125-city foodie networking series that works kind of...
Date: 07/18/2013
The BizSpark Show Is Helping Startups Scale
When we started The Microsoft BizSpark Show only two short months ago (or maybe it was three months...
Date: 07/15/2013
There Is No Signal In Your Signal Anymore: Why Startup Marketing Needs a Six Step Social Marketing Methodology
Many of the startups in our 50,000+ membership roll have asked our team for some advice on social...
Date: 07/08/2013
How Pixsi Reimagines and Transforms the Shopping Experience
Founder and CEO Scott Andrews (www.linkedin.com/in/scottjandrews) conceived the ideas behind Pixsi...
Date: 07/06/2013
Bringing Volume to Serendipity: BizSpark Grows Under Microsoft Ventures, Germany Opens Microsoft Accelerator to Packed Event
A high-caliber panel of judges chose Spreaker, a digital music sharing service, as the most...
Date: 07/04/2013
Update: Autoruns v11.62
Autoruns v11.62: This release fixes a bug in version 11.61’s jump-to-image functionality.
Date: 07/01/2013
Windows 8 Design Principles Simplified Part 3 - Fast and Fluid
Welcome to the 'Windows 8 design principles for dummies' series. One of the key reasons for apps...
Date: 07/01/2013
Time Is Running Out to Vote for the BizSpark People's Choice Award 2013
On July 4, twelve of the top BizSpark startup founders in Europe will gather in Berlin to talk shop...
Date: 06/27/2013
Pride in Craftsmanship -- Windows 8 Development Part 2
Sonal Mane, a Microsoft startup technologist in Chicago, provides us with the second chapter in a...
Date: 06/23/2013
BizSpark Member myhomehelper Fights Dementia With The Cloud, Makes Technology4Good Finals
A one-man Microsoft BizSpark company from Hull is up against the likes of Barclays Bank with a...
Date: 06/23/2013
Updates: Mark's TechEd Sessions, Autoruns v11.61, Strings v2.52, ZoomIt v4.5
Mark’s TechEd Sessions Available On-Demand: Mark delivered four top-rated sessions at...
Date: 06/20/2013
Instagram Video and Facebook in Asia -- We Chat Live with David Weekly, Facebook Developer Advocate
Douglas Crets is talking with David Weekly, Facebook's Developer Advocate for Asia, at 3pm Pacific...
Date: 06/20/2013
Technology That Speaks for Itself: Nova, from Swedish Firm Veridict
Here’s a situation with which we can all identify. You’re out of the office working from...
Date: 06/20/2013
Doing More With Less in Windows 8 Development -- (Part One)
Sonal Mane, a Startup Technologist working for Microsoft in Chicago, walks you through steps to make...
Date: 06/17/2013
Get Your Map of the Microsoft Developer Platform World
This map comes from Microsoft Technical Evangelist Vitor Ciaramella. Feel free to share.
Date: 06/10/2013
BizSpark Members Pitch Their Startups in Less Than 140 Characters
Here are today's #BZPitch pitches. When you sign up to Microsoft BizSpark, you are introduced to...
Date: 06/06/2013
Updates: Autoruns v11.6, Procexp v15.31, Procmon v3.05, Sigcheck v1.92
Autoruns v11.6: Autoruns is a utility for enumerating and disabling executables and DLLs configured...
Date: 06/04/2013
Kushal Shah Wants to Destroy Cold Calling -- Meet O Funnel, a Windows Azure Accelerator Startup
On June 21, the Windows Azure Accelerator powered by TechStars will showcase a number of startups...
Date: 06/04/2013
New Flexibility Comes to Windows Azure Benefits for Microsoft BizSpark Startups
Today, Windows Azure announced enhancements and changes int he Windows Azure Offer available to...
Date: 06/03/2013
Peer Into Real Time Usage with TapMap, a Microsoft BizSpark Startup Tool Released This Weekend
The continually morphing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 ecosystem added another feature this weekend...
Date: 05/28/2013
Watch PandoDaily Founder Sarah Lacy Interview Silicon Valley Legend John Doerr
IT is with great pleasure that we bring BizSpark members a live stream of PandoDaily CEO Sarah...
Date: 05/23/2013
Up Global: Startup Weekend and Startup America Form New Partnership to Build Entrepreneurs in a Big Way
Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership announced today that they will join together to...
Date: 05/23/2013
BizSpark Members Can Get Free Exposure for Apps with PreApps
Meet the founders of Pre-Apps -one of the newest partners joining the BizSpark community . With over...
Date: 05/22/2013