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Dave McClure at Startup Organizer Summit: Start With Many Small Experiments, Fail Fast
If you have not read Dave McClure's thoughts on the 500 Startups business model, stop now, and go...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/17/2013
What Is it Like to Go Through the Israeli Microsoft Accelerator
Alan Weinkrantz ran into Kobi Stok and his guitar at SXSW this week. Weinkrantz asked Kobi what it...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/14/2013
Speek Co-Founder Gets Monkey Tattoo on Rear End, Find Out Why
Careful what you say in a pitch. Speek CTO Danny Boice, a Microsoft BizSpark member and fully...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/13/2013
It keeps on getting better – Hortonworks highlights native Windows support for Apache Hadoop
Any time you can open up a platform to more options for interoperability, it’s a great thing....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/13/2013
#SXSW Is About Getting It Done
What a thrill to land in Austin two days ago and immediately start answering tweets and text...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/09/2013
Share Video at SXSW, We'll Put Some of Them on the Blog
The team at BizSpark knows that mobile video is the thing this year. So, to make it even more a...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/05/2013
Get Yammer Here
Startups in Microsoft BizSpark now qualify for Yammer. Get it while the getting is good.
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/05/2013
How the Learn to Code Video Inspired Prateek Gupta to Jump on the Startup Bus and Save the World
So, you all have probably seen the Learn to Code video. How can you not be inspired by this? Well,...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/04/2013
Watch LAUNCH Festival 2013 Live
We are at Launch Festival 2013 today. San Francisco weather is gorgeous, and startups are jumping...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/04/2013
Bing Fund Welcomes Sonar -- First East Coast Team in the Portfolio
Today Bing Fund and Sonar announced that Bing Fund has reached across this great land of ours to...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/28/2013
Speek Launching Windows Phone App Before Android to Jump on Huge Downloads Probability
Speek.com, a platform for easy conference calls, started as a way to permanently rid the world of...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/26/2013
Your Tablet Sous Chef -- YumvY
In the past decade, we have witnessed a steady transition of content and media from our physical...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/19/2013
Haunted: Launch of the First Windows Phone App Funded by AppCampus
The games app market is extremely competitive, so finding new ways to keep players captivated is the...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/18/2013
A collaborative snapshot of community-driven Web developer tools
Today Scott Guthrie blogged about new releases of Microsoft’s Web developer tools that reflect...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/18/2013
Three Pieces of Advice from Tech Cocktail
Through our partnership with TechCocktail, we have three pieces of advice for entrepreneurs building...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/15/2013
Join Us For a Live Interview with Daniel Cowen, Founder of Echoer
We are running a full hour live interview on LiveStream with Daniel Cowen, founder of local...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/13/2013
Our Daily Facebook Community Feed Generated by Tint
Here's all the action from today's Facebook Community discussions at Microsoft BizSpark, brought to...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/12/2013
The Last Bubble's Investors Are in a Lag, Disruption Investors Are Avant-Garde
Could be wrong, but I believe investors and startup people are in what you call a deployment period....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/12/2013
VM Depot repository off to a flying start
It's been just one month since Microsoft Open Technologies announced the early preview of VM Depot,...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/10/2013
We Are Doing Things With Founder Dating, So That You Can Find Your Co-Founder
We asked Jessica Alter, co-founder and Chief Connector of Founder Dating, to tell us what has...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/08/2013
Mountain View Mania Continues
So, last night we had this perfect storm of pitch events, tech meetups, and a wild party in the...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/06/2013
Updates: Pendmoves v1.2, Process Explorer v15.3, Sigcheck v1.91, Zoomit v4.42
Pendmoves v1.2: This update to Pendmoves adds support for 64-bit directories. Process Explorer...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/04/2013
Doing Stuff with TechCocktail -- Be a Pal, Go Their Party at SXSW This Year
Many of you have probably heard of the great things that Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo do with...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/04/2013
How MobiWeave Pivoted to a Cloud App by MobiWeave Founder Ash D'Costa
Mobi Weave was founded to create great User Experiences for Enterprise apps and with our 4.5 star...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/04/2013
Chai Botta Reveals How InnovactionLab Helped Him Build His Gaming Startup
Most students graduate facing the challenge of getting a job, but Chai Botta, the CEO of GameIn this...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/04/2013
Update: Autoruns v11.42
Autoruns v11.42: This release fixes a bug in the parsing of network file paths introduced in...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/30/2013
Git now fully supported and integrated into Team Foundation Service
Here is great news for open source developers: Brian Harry announced today at the Microsoft’s...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/30/2013
Three Node.js Bootcamps Coming to West Coast -- Learn Node.js From the Bottom Up
Node.js is a server side software system designed for writing scalable Internet applications,...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/28/2013
The Most Important Links for Startups from Microsoft BizSpark -- January 29, 2013
Investors are pointing to a rising M&A trend for the enterprise and startups ecosystem. Windows...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/28/2013
It's an exciting day for me
I've been involved with open source software for just shy of 15 years now. During that time I've...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/28/2013
Score a Date with Big Data Before Valentine's Day
This will make your geeky little heart skip a beat. So sick and tired of Valentine's Day. Right? If...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/25/2013
Updates: Autoruns v11.41, Handle v3.51, Movefile v1.01, Procdump v5.13, Sigcheck v1.9
Autoruns v11.41: This Autoruns update reports the hosting image target of link shortcut references....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/24/2013
How To Never Give Up, by Funders and Founders
We subscribe to this great board on Quora for infographics. It turns out that most of those...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/21/2013
The First Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Demo Day -- Powered by Tech Stars
Yesterday we wrapped up the Accelerator experience with TechStars in Seattle with our Demo Day. The...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/18/2013
Social Dating Startup Joins Bing Fund - Finds You a Partner Through Social Graph
LikeBright founder and Microsoft BizSpark member Nick Soman announced that his company had joined...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/16/2013
Why Should I Apply for the Windows Azure Accelerator Powered by Tech Stars?
The Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure, Powered by Tech Stars will have its first of two demo...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/15/2013
BizSpark Member Zirtual Raises $2 Million from Tony Hsieh and Others To Ramp Up Virtual Assistants
BizSpark member Zirtual is in the news today with founder Maren Kate Donovan securing $2 million in...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/14/2013
In the Struggle Is the Product -- Brian Chesky Survived on Dry Cereal and Maxed Out Credit Cards Until Someone Got It
Last night, we listened to a great evening of stories from Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky. The event...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/11/2013
Updates: Autoruns v11.4, ProcDump v5.12, SDelete v1.61
Autoruns v11.4: Autoruns v11.4 adds additional startup locations, fixes several bugs related to...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/10/2013
Gaming Your Education
Most students graduate facing the challenge of getting a job, but Chai Botta, the CEO of GameIn this...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/10/2013