BizSpark Group Blog
The 54 Hour Journey -- Startup Weekend Kirkland
Microsoft Technical Evangelist Steve Seow takes us through the 54 hours of glory that go into doing...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/14/2012
What FakeGrimlock Knows and When He Knows It -- Following Your Success to the Next Nectar Origin Will Make Your Startup Real
Are you in the matrix? Is the Twitter handle itself a complete distribution system for what you know...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/13/2012
Embedding at Stanford: Microsoft Teams Jump Into the Fray at Startup Weekend
Very few things in the Silicon Valley tech scene are more refreshing than observing a group of gung...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/12/2012
What is the Startup Weekend Global Startup Battle?
Developers have been asking me about what Microsoft BizSpark will do to get more developers and...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/11/2012
How Startup Weekend Played Out -- The Tweets, Pics, and Video Demos Your Parents Warned You About
There was a rush of Startup Weekend events this weekend. Here are a few of the tweets, photos and...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/11/2012
"Load it, check it, quick - rewrite it, Plug it, play it, burn it, rip it" -- What Daft Punk Teaches About Tech
The title of this text is a piece of a Daft Punk’s song called Technology. Though this song...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/05/2012
You Can Help Microsoft NERD Help Sandy Victims -- Donations Collected November 5, From 3-4 PM
Attention friends and colleagues in Boston. You can help Chris Brogan and his girlfriend Jacqueline...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/04/2012
Infantium for Windows 8: How An Idea Becomes an App
It’s exciting enough when we hear about developers taking existing apps and putting them on...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/03/2012
Spanish Innovation -- Solving Unemployment with Apps and Startups
How do you beat unemployment? You spark a startup movement with education initiatives and a focus on...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/03/2012
Swiss Apps: How Ricardo.Ch Uses Windows 8 to Bring a Tighter Focus and Local Color to Auctions Online
Worldwide, online auction sites are the way that many people buy a variety of products, but often...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/02/2012
Are You Ready to Think Next? Steve Ballmer and More will be in Tel Aviv Next Week
The Microsoft Research and Development Center Israel is hosting a new edition of Think Next starting...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/01/2012
DreamIt and Microsoft Help Startups Dream, Then Do
I was first introduced to Arie Abecassis, one of the Managing Partners at DreamIt Ventures, back in...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/31/2012
BizSpark Members Make Up 30% of Dave McClure's Fifth Class at 500 Startups
Dave McClure's 500 startups announced their new class today, and since 9 of those 33 teams are...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/31/2012
In Russia, Using Azure to Turn Your Daily Blog Reading into a Paper Route
For the Russian speakers out there, here's a very handy series on how BizSpark members AtContent...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/31/2012
Rahul Sood On The Hardest Task for a Founder and Book Club Recommendations
When you are building your company, you always end up facing that one hardest thing, or a myriad of...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/29/2012
BizSpark Member and DEMO Africa Roundup
It's time to do a quick roundup of what African entrepreneurs did this past week, while they were...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/27/2012
Commerce Guys Creating Easy to Use Drupal E-Commerce, on Azure
We're running this blog post today to look back at the BizSpark EU Summit which we hosted in the UK....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/27/2012
DEMO Africa: Make a Business Plan that Adapts to Tech Changes
DEMO Africa ended on Friday, but that won't stop us from running our remaining interviews with some...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/27/2012
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Vishnu Prasad in Singapore
To introduce our next Microsoft Ambassador, we turn to Singapore. Vishnu Prasad works for...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/27/2012
Interview: BizSpark Startup Submittable Exits Y-Combinator Seeking 1 Million Customers
This BizSpark company just finished a term with Y-Combinator and is actively working with large...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/26/2012
On November 1, Your Startup Goes to Eleven
Have you heard of Rockstart Accelerator? Whoa, boy. Why not? On November 1, one of the most...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/26/2012
DEMO Africa: SASA Builds E-Commerce for the Emerging Billions
Congratulations to SASA Africa, one of five DEMO Lions at DEMO Africa, which wrapped up today in...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/26/2012
Notes from FailCon: Why #Fail Could Be Your Biggest Catalyst for Growth
We work and live in a startup culture that prizes money, funding, success over things like failure,...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/25/2012
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Opens DEMO Africa 2012
She was not there live, but this is the video she sent in to DEMO Africa, which opened very early...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/25/2012
Live Stream of the Windows 8 Launch in New York City
We are covering the live stream of the Windows 8 launch in New York City right here.
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/25/2012
The Way of the MindSumo Warrior: Guest Post from MindSumo CEO Keaton Swett
In a place like Silicon Valley, it can sometimes feel like companies are started simply because...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/24/2012
Death Is Real, Your App Better Have Meaning
Death is an easy metaphor, because it's so huge, and it commands attention. And tech reporting uses...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/23/2012
Analytics for Your Apps, Even in Offline Mode
MarkedUp, which offers analytics to mobile apps makers, is going after the growing Windows 8 apps...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/23/2012
In Dublin’s Fair City Web Startups Rule
Tech entrepreneurship just got sexy. Fresh from the Web Summit in Dublin (or not-so-fresh given the...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/23/2012
Meet the Winners of the New York Tech Meetup Windows 8 Hackathon: Purpella
The Windows 8 launch is right around the corner and recently Microsoft and New York Tech Meetup...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/19/2012
How Developers Can Keep from Losing their Data in the Fog of Coding: AppFog founder Lucas Carlson Explains
Lucas Carlson is a magician and developer who lost ten years worth of projects when his server...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/18/2012
A Coming Flud? With Death of Print a Reality, It's Time to Get Granular and Social
Andrew Sullivan is right about the death of print. Newsweek print may be a dead beast in the muck -...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/18/2012
DEMO Africa Super Stars: Alison Jacobson, CEO, Firestring
Meet Alison Jacobson, CEO of Firestring, one of the DEMO Africa Final 40 set to pitch at the event...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/16/2012
DEMO Africa: Natalino Mwenda's Dream Proves Small Iterations Make Huge Impacts
I've never been to Dar Es Salaam, but I imagine that methodologies that spark innovation there will...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/15/2012
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Manoj Nathwani, Founder of Price Trakker at 17
My name is Manoj Nathwani and I founded Price Trakker when I was 17. Price Trakker is basically like...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/15/2012
Getting Ready for DEMO Africa: Our Brief Interview With Collins Mugume, Founder of Meka
DEMO Africa is only a few days away. So, to get ready, we are showcasing interviews from nearly a...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/15/2012
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Arunava Chatterjee, WebWizard Technologies
BizSpark has grown so large that it now covers over 100 countries and about 50,000 startups. We have...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/13/2012
DEMO Africa: Framework One, Doing It In the Cloud in Africa
Here's an amazing fact about Africa: You can fit nearly all of the land masses of nearly all of the...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/12/2012
Prevent Bureaucratic Snafus with ID2Doc, a Bulgarian Disruption
A startup founder in Bulgaria is trying to make it easier for you to transfer information from ID...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/11/2012
Sweden's IT Girl of the Year Explains the Sweden Startup Scene -- Students, Students, Students
Helping students to become the next generation of start-ups is a huge area of focus within Microsoft...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/11/2012
Startup Rx: How Do We Get to Healthcare Technology Innovation? A Prescription from BizSpark Startup MiMedication
Being a start-up is never easy but some markets are particularly challenging. The healthcare sector...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/11/2012
Your Country Needs You! Register to Pitch at Reboot America
If you are a startup founder who wants to contribute to an improving economy, you can pitch at...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/10/2012
People Don't Care About Your Product, They Care About Its Impact On Their Lives
Rather than help a consumer become more efficient, it's important to help them solve everyday, basic...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/10/2012
Is Microsoft BizSpark Real? The Startups Who Email Us Know It Is
When Microsoft first offered me a job at Microsoft to help them manage 50,000 startups that had...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/08/2012
Get Inspired with Startup Weekend Perth's Team Gainspiration
How do you get inspired? Is inspiration random and accidental? I don't think that it is. I think...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/08/2012
Gaining Support for Brazilian Startups, a Brazilian Entrepreneur Tells All
Startup outlook in Brazil Being an entrepreneur in Brazil is a lesson in how to accept excitement...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/08/2012
Meet a Microsoft BizSpark Ambassador: Brazil's Carlos Eduardo Pinto, Pratical One
BizSpark has grown so big that now it's time to say goodbye to a rather limited blogging strategy....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/08/2012
DEMO Africa: Pieter Nel, CEO, Kuza
Get firsthand information from one of South and East Africa's up and coming mobile solutions, Kuza...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/08/2012
YouthSpark Update: Startups Create Twice the Value for Economies Like Estonia Than In Other Countries
If you are going to tinker with robotics, mobile app building and anything that a strong developer...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/05/2012
Mix It: Music Sharing and Collaborating Big Theme at #DEMO2012
So far we've had a guy rap on stage, live, while collaborating with his partner across the country....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/03/2012