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@HashTip Is a Way to Get Instantaneous Tips -- and Coupons -- When You are Out
Your friends are really good at telling you what to wear, or whether your hair looks good in the...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/26/2012
Run a Startup and Need a Partner? Check Out This Map, and Get Going
Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft Bizspark What is the most amazing thing...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/25/2012
30 To Launch Kicks Off Its Thirty Day Challenge to Rock Your App In the Azure Cloud, and Maybe Win $4,000
30 to Launch Opens Today If you haven't heard of this before, prepare to engross yourself in a new...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/24/2012
Lise Quintana: Product Building is Storytelling in Quick-Forming Communities
Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft BizSpark Lise Quintana is a storyteller...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/24/2012
30 to Launch Azure at Seed Philly!
Back in February we had a great series of Windows Phone 7 talks we did at Seed Philly that...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/24/2012
Stanford Shopping Center – Microsoft Store Grand Opening
After much anticipation, Microsoft Retail Stores opened its 15th store Thursday at the Stanford...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/23/2012
#BizSpark Partner Offers Will Keep You Lean, Fast and Scaling Up
Many of the nearly 50,000 startups hosted on the Azure Cloud may not know how much support and...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/20/2012
Roboticists Do It Better -- At Startup Weekend, Assembling Code and Mechanics in Meat Space
Robots are suddenly becoming a very attractive startup idea. Startup Weekend showed us that app...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/20/2012
Launch: Silicon Valley Wants Your Entrepreneurial Genius -- Applications Open Today for its June 5 Event
If you are a dreamer and an entrepreneur, and if you think that solving problems and making life...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/19/2012
#DEMO2012 -- From the Floor, Startups That Help You Share Media, Find Burritos and Flee Emergencies
We went around over the past two days and asked entrepreneurs at DEMO 2012 what they were here to...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/19/2012
A Cloud Curb Service -- Turning a Limousine Service into a Software and Cloud Services Vendor
When a man running information technology for a limousine company started testing out Windows System...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/19/2012
Event Report – Startup Weekend Tampa
Startup Weekend Tampa – April 13-15, 2012 (Quick Note – At Microsoft we do event reports when we...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/19/2012
BikiniGate at #SWBayMEGA -- What It Means to Build an App and Speak for a Culture
Post written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist for Microsoft BizSpark It will go down as...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/17/2012
#MEGA #Mobile at #Microsoft
By Claire Lee If you are signed up for the Mobile track @Mega this weekend (starting tomorrow) we...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/12/2012
Gaming Gig – Kinect for Windows @Mega
By Claire Lee This weekend – if you are signed up for the Gaming track at Mega Startup...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/12/2012
Announcing one more way Microsoft will engage with the open source and standards communities
In case you missed it, I just wanted to flag this blog from Jean Paoli: I am really excited to be...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 04/12/2012
Calling all MEGA Startup Weekenders!
By Claire Lee The Windows team is in town this week from rainy Redmond to give you world-class,...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/11/2012
Windows Azure Learning Path
Great new content from the expert team I’m involved with around Azure. Check out all the new content...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/05/2012
Microsoft, Nokia and Aalto University team up to create a new wave of mobile start-ups
Guest blog by Ruud de Jonge When we lifted the hood on Windows Mobile 7 for developers a while back,...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/04/2012
Event Report: Startup Conversations
Blog by Steve Seow: On March 16 in Seattle, I partnered with Luis Aburto, CEO of Scio Consulting (a...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/03/2012
Startup Conversations
Blog by Steve Seow: On March 16 in Seattle, I partnered with Luis Aburto, CEO of Scio Consulting (a...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/03/2012
Testing against IE for Startups
I tell this to startups all the time. You need to test your sites and products against IE, even if...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/02/2012
Saving Trees and Startups - PrintEco, BizSpark, & CloudShare
Guest blog by Ilana Bercovitz, CloudShare - Interview with Arpan Shah, PrintEco Arpan Shah is...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 04/02/2012
ASP.NET, Web API and ASP.NET Web Pages Open Sourced
More Open Source goodness from Microsoft today, with the announcement that we are open sourcing...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/27/2012
CodePlex now Supports Git
Great news for our CodePlex community: CodePlex now supports Git! Git has been one of the top rated...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/22/2012
New Interoperability Solutions for SQL Server 2012
I am excited to share some great news about how we are opening up the SQL Server data platform even...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/22/2012
Bing-MassChallenge Startup Showcase at SXSW
Last week at South by Southwest Interactive, Bing hosted an awesome startup showcase for...
Author: Abby Fichtner MS Date: 03/20/2012
Facebook C# SDK submitted to the Outercurve Foundation
I am pleased to announce another open source milestone as we continue to deliver on our commitment...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 03/20/2012
Event Report - Christchurch Startup Weekend
Blog by Thiago Almeida: Event Details 24-26 February 2012 Westpac Business &Community Hub,...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 03/13/2012
Reimagining App Development: Introducing Windows 8
By Brett Laffel The LAUNCH you’ve been waiting for! Are you interested in learning more about...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 03/13/2012
Seedcamp Visits Microsoft Silicon Valley
Blog by Claire Lee : As part of their annual USA trip, Seedcamp visited the Microsoft SV offices on...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 03/12/2012
BizSpark @SXSW
By Midori Lawler Several members of the BizSpark team have descended upon Austin because its, yes,...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 03/11/2012
Event Report : The Malaysian Premiere of Ctrl+Alt+Compete, a startup documentary, on January 18 2012
Blog by Daryll McDade: So...we, Microsoft, made a movie and on January 18 2012, we shared it with...
Author: Brian Johnson MS Date: 03/06/2012