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Highlights from Startup Weekend Cambodia
Startup Weekend Cambodia took place on 22 – 24 of June, with 80 registered participants...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/19/2012
40 Year Old Female Seeks Happiness, Finds It In Startup -- Guest Blog by Scrattch Founder Louise Donnelly-Davey
Guest blogger Louise Donnelly-Davey is 40 years old, and founder of web startup Scrattch. An active...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/18/2012
Why Leo Tolstoy Was Right About Startups: A Croatian Entrepreneur Tells All
In Leo Tolstoy's great, and epic, novel Anna Karenina, he starts off his tome by stating: "Happy...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/16/2012
JamPot is Northern Ireland's Way of Saying "You Can Build Apps, Too"
Belfast built the Titanic. They can build apps -- or an app builder -- too. An app store model that...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/16/2012
Reza Alizadeh, Architect Evangelist Wins Facebook Hackathon
Microsoft's awesome developer evangelist Reza Alizadeh won the Facebook-Heroku hackathon a couple of...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/13/2012
Interview With Social Storyteller SocialSamba: How a Beer Becomes a Business
"The gummy bears are fed up with being eaten. They plot to destroy humanity. Who's side are you on?"...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/12/2012
SwitchCam: Perfect Startup Mentor? MacGyver, Obviously
Remember how MacGyver used to take pencils, a piece of gum, a mirror shard and an armadillo paw and...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/12/2012
Updates: Autoruns v11.34, ProcDump v5.0, Sigcheck v1.8, VMMap v3.11
Autoruns v11.34: This release of Autoruns fixes a bug that caused it to not show some Internet...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/11/2012
Connecting BizSpark Members to a Billion People: New Windows Store and Windows Phone Marketplace Offer
To celebrate startups and to make it easier to build for Windows 8, the BizSpark team from today...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/11/2012
Chute: What Made You Fall in Love? Design.
Even though the emotions are powerful, the move towards love is a choice, not some silly romantic...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/11/2012
StartX and Microsoft Announce Strategic Partnership
The future is made of collaborators working in innovation strongholds like StartX. This post was...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/10/2012
Startup Washington Launches in Seattle
The BizSpark team joined over 300 entrepreneurs and regional leaders for the official launch of...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/09/2012
Follow the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon Pitches Here
Watch our Microsoft Evangelist team present their app, Play it Forward, which they hacked together...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/09/2012
This is the Script the Microsoft Evangelists Used to Pitch their Hack
We got our hands on the script that the Microsoft Evangelists used to pitch their product. This is...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/09/2012
Microsoft Developer Evangelist Hackers Enter TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon -- Follow Them on Twitter
For the first time ever, Microsoft has entered its evangelists in the Tech Crunch Disrupt Hackathon....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/08/2012
The Three Coolest Israeli Startups, With Links to Personal Interviews with the Founders
Yesterday, we had our first Israeli Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure Demo Day, and it went...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/07/2012
Atav Founder Tal Moran: Believe In Yourself, Help Others
Atav is another one of our Israeli startups debuting their product for an American audience today....
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/06/2012
Evolero Founder: Unload Your Head So Your Customers Can Experience Things Clearly
This week, Israeli startups came to Microsoft's Silicon Valley headquarters and demonstrated their...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/06/2012
Vidit Founder: You Must Know Your Customer To Know Your Product
Vidit recreates events using crowd sourced video. Vidit collects videos taken by many people in a...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/06/2012
This is Stevie: Founder Says Social TV Still Defining Itself
You thought Social TV was going to solve all your advertising market problems, and stop the annoying...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/06/2012
MediSafe Project: Starting a Tech Business is More Challenging Than Learning to Fly
We asked Israeli startup MediSafe Project to teach us something about what it means to work on a...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/06/2012
Get Your Butt to 30 to Launch, Make Something Amazing
With 525 million Windows 7 licenses sold, millions of people await Windows 8 apps. The think goes --...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/05/2012
Socialize Founder Daniel Odio: Your App Works When People Care About It
Apps are cultures. Here is a photo of some Socialize Founders jumping in an alley. The bald guy is...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/03/2012
It's Quite Okay to Make a Little Bit of Money
James Bond said it was okay, so why not? We are going to run this brief Experience interview with...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/30/2012
Join Our Live Facebook Chat at 10am PST, Wednesday, August 29 Daniel Jebaraj, Co-Founder of Syncfusion
Join us Wednesday, 10am PST as we talk to Syncfusion co-founder Daniel Jebaraj about the perils and...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/27/2012
How Someone Took 36 Different Mars Images and Put a Pano on TourWrist
We hope the Mohawk Guy at NASA sees this. Steve Perry at DEMO Spring 2012 Winner TourWrist has taken...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/23/2012
Why We Are Using Geekli.st -- Hyper Community
When I met Reuben Katz, it was during one of my walks through Rocketspace in San Francisco, where I...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/22/2012
Founder Interview: Nick Soman of LikeBright: Meet Your Match Through Your Facebook Graph
Nick Soman created an app that lets you find potential relationship partners through your friends'...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/14/2012
Dig Deep In Twitter, By Letting The Beautiful, Bold and Adventurous Rise to Your Feeds
Ever felt frustrated that you can never dig deep enough, and reliably enough, into Twitter to find...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/14/2012
Go build the next big application. SendGrid will take care of your email.
SendGrid is a cloud-based service that replaces your company’s email infrastructure and...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/13/2012
From Publishing Imprints and Publisher Authority to Signposts for Community Development
In information publishing, the more you publish, the bigger your opportunity to develop a community...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/13/2012
MS Open Tech is hiring - come join the fun!
I can hardly believe it’s been almost four months since we announced the foundation of...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/13/2012