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Facebook Promoted Posts: A Tool You Need In Your Startup Kit
After the IPO, what will $5 get you in Facebook? Turns out, plenty. After this months rocky but...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 06/11/2012
Three Tips for Building Your Business Reputation Online -- Some Recommendations from Brandify
Many executives in the marketing role may be uneasy withthe thought of tying lack of brand messaging...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 06/08/2012
FounderFuel Taking Applications for Fall 2012 -- Apply Here
As many of you might know, 11 teams just graduated from the FounderFuel (https://founderfuel.com)...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 06/08/2012
A New Milestone For Openness On Windows Azure
Today Bill Laing, Corporate VP for Server and Cloud, announced a very important set of Windows Azure...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/06/2012
Reshma Sohoni: "Don't Divorce Mobile and Desktop" -- They Need Each Other
Tomorrow is the first day of the BizSpark Euro Summit 2012. To prepare, we asked a few of the judges...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 06/06/2012
Turner Broadcasting Accelerator Media Camp Unveils Inaugural Class
Six technology startups selected to help change the future of entertainment. SAN FRANCISCO, CA...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 06/05/2012
Alive with Activity -- Touch First Experience and Simplicity of Design
I went to RocketSpace last night where Michael Shcroeder, principal architecture evangelist for...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 06/04/2012
Three Questions About Startup Culture: Nic Brisbourne, Partner at DFJ
Entrepreneurs better be prepared to compete on both mobile and desktop, since the future is not...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 06/01/2012
Kinect Accelerator Taking Applications Until June 29 -- Free Azure Hosting to Build Stuff
Sam Rosenbalm, BizSpark Managing Director, has been mentoring and visiting with entrepreneurs at the...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/25/2012
Guest Post: Adam Peterson, CEO, Vipecloud: Other People's Marketing
Most entrepreneurs are familiar with the term Other People’s Money. In fact, some believe...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/25/2012
Reshma Sohoni on Startups -- Euro Summit 2012 Is a Tech Watering Hole for Regional Startups
Bindi Kharia interviews Seedcamp co-founder Reshma Sohoni The BizSpark European Summit always...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/24/2012
You Can Help Choose the People Choice Award Winner During the Microsoft BizSpark EU Summit on June 7
Have your say! Vote for your favourite BizSpark European Summit Startup Finalist now! On June 7th,...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/21/2012
Fitting Reality Uses AR to Provide Retail Therapy in Your Living Room, Serves as A Personal Shopping Assistant
We're running a few blog posts over the next week to celebrate the BizSpark EU Summit being hosted...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/21/2012
OSBC 2012: Advancing Interoperability in the Cloud
At the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco today, Sandy Gupta, the General Manager for...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/21/2012
SpoonHub Captures Microsoft BizSpark Grand Prize Challenge at TechCrunch Disrupt
Spoonhub, "a Github for recipes" took away the grand prize challenge at today's TechCrunch Disrupt...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/20/2012
TechCrunch Hackathon Disrupt Presentations Are Live -- Watch Them
After a whole night of hacking, we are onto the Disrupt presentations. Live stream videos at...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/20/2012
Live Video: Tech Crunch Disrupt in New York City
There's nothing quite like the smell of the morning air, or hoisting a decaf latte in the hand, and...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/19/2012
Jordan Crook and Matt Burns from TechCrunch Probe Hackers for Info About Hackathon
Jordan Crook and Matt Burns walk the line of hackers lined up to get into the NYC TechCrunch Disrupt...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/19/2012
TechCrunch Hackaton Starts Today: Get Updates about Microsoft BizSpark Startups
The TechCrunch Hackathon starts at 12.30 in NYC. We have three companies there. Aviary, an awesome...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/19/2012
Of Baristas and Accelerators: Do Entrepreneurs Ship or Serve?
Today I am going to visit the Microsoft Accelerator at 320 Westlake Avenue in Seattle. Incidentally,...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/16/2012
How Awesome Is This? Giving Away Huge Xbox and Windows Phone Package at TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon
TechCrunch Disrupt will be here this weekend, and if you are a developer and a builder of apps, you...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/15/2012
FreeBSD to run as a first-class guest on Windows Server Hyper-V
Today, at BSDCan 2012, Microsoft and partners NetApp and Citrix announced upcoming native support...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/11/2012
In Belfast, a Financial Startups Challenge Called Innotribe
An event that offers up to $500,000 in prizes to financial-focused startups has finished running in...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/11/2012
Startup Continent: Lions@frica Teams with Nokia, Microsoft and DEMO to Support Africa v2.0 at World Economic Forum
Today at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, high-level representatives...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/08/2012
Inside Windows Phone -- How a Code Becomes a Game
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/03/2012
#Startup2012: Live Stream from Business Insider, Learn How to Manage Your Startup
Here's a live stream of the Business Insider #Startup2012 conference in New York City. This will...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 05/03/2012
Rob Caron: Top Ten #Microsoft Developer Blog Posts for Monday
Thanks to Rob Caron for posting these great links for developers today. Keep coming back for this...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/30/2012
#Windows Phone: Building an App Culture and Ecosystem in Education and in E-Reading
All sorts of guessing and excitement about the new Microsoft investment in Barnes & Noble today....
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/30/2012
Wappwolf Is Wawesome -- An Automated File Workflow Process
Pun aside, Wappwolf is based at Rocketspace on Fremont Street in San Francisco. It's run by Roland...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/27/2012
A Soluto for Azure: How An Israeli Social IT Startup Moved to Microsoft Azure
An Israeli startup called Soluto switched to Windows Azure to help it deliver Soluto to more than 3...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/27/2012
#Azure is a Catalyst for Boosting Startups -- Inside a #Microsoft Incubator
There's been a shift in how Microsoft interacts with the market. Locating a headquarters in Silicon...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/26/2012
Here’s to the first release from MS Open Tech: Redis on Windows
The past few weeks have been very busy in our offices as we announced the creation of Microsoft Open...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 04/26/2012