BizSpark Group Blog
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
The Magnificent Eight -- Bringing Apps to Market In a Massive Wave
Why bring one app to market when you can launch 10, 20, even 30? That is the ethos of a dynamic team...
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
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
500 Startups Mexican Demo Day Just Happened -- Silicon Valley is a "Spiritual Hub" for Startups Says Cesar Salazar
Great opening launch by Cesar Salazar, who merged Mexican.vc with Dave McClure's 500 Startups, as he...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 02/05/2013
Doing Stuff with TechCocktail -- Be a Pal, Go to 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
Building a Company With Community and Design Support
You can find dozens of sites out there that talk about the financial and operational logistics of...
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
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
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
The Search for a Business Model -- Being Temporary In a World Desperately Seeking Profitability
Many people tell me that they have a great idea and that as soon as they get enough customers they...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/25/2013
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
Why Should a Startup Founder Use Elance? Outsourcing to Grow, A Founder's Experience
I've heard this question framed in debates online and in offline events. It is as if there is a...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/18/2013
Artist or Founder? Are You Telling The Right Narrative To Earn an Audience? by Kahlil Ashanti
What do artists and start-up founders have in common? There is one rather indiscriminate fact that...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/16/2013
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
The Trust That Builds Awesome -- Socedo Graduates from Accelerator Thinking About the Future
Kevin Yu, one half of Socedo, tells me that he has an infinite amount of trust in Aseem Badshah, his...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/11/2013
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
Putting the Cafe Meeting in a Browser -- Looking at FreshTag, a BizSpark Member Company
Guest blog post by Prateek Gupta, founder of FreshTag, an app that connects multiple people by...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/10/2013
By 2020 There Will Be A Billion Entrepreneurs, And They Will be Women
If you want insight into the next billion entrepreneurs to generate new ideas, disruption and...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/09/2013
Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure -- A Dream of Instant Ambition, Realty Mogul
When I talked to Jilliene Helman of Realty Mogul I learned that a true entrepreneur is someone who...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/08/2013
Bill Gates Keynotes SXSW and Other Things You Will Tell Your Kids One Day
To start off this bit of news, we recently found out our old commander-in-chief Bill Gates is going...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/08/2013
This Open World MMORPG Is One of BizSpark's New Gaming Startups in Italy
Meet DiXidiaSoft's newest creation, Realms of Swordfall, a MMORPG. They are our first online gaming...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 01/07/2013
Reversing the Brain Drain in Nepal
One of the real benefits of technology we have been able to provide to rural Nepal has been to teach...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/26/2012
How Can I Get Microsoft to Write About My Startup? It's Easy!
This is a question we get so many times, its worth having a blog post about it to point people to,...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/26/2012
This is Why Entrepreneurs Do It Themselves
If you have been in any kind of investing and building game while trying to get your startup...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/24/2012
Relentless Entrepreneur is Relentless
Developers and entrepreneurs can get frustrated over a great many things. But one thing I have...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/21/2012
New Round of Applications Opens for Second Windows Azure Accelerator
If you are working on an app, or trying to build a company using the cloud, mobile, or any other...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/20/2012
A Startup Weekend Video Starring... Not Macs
Here's what happens when you do a Startup Weekend at Microsoft. A little bit about what happened at...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/19/2012
This Week's Best Developer and Entrepreneur Conversations on Facebook
Facebook has a really poor way of archiving and curating great conversations. Since Facebook is...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/15/2012
Live Stream: iOS Developers Grab Insights on How to Develop for Windows 8
We're running a live stream of this really fascinating iOS camp for Windows 8 Development. About Big...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/13/2012
ZenDeals Launches Out of Stealth
We caught up with ZenDeals co-founders Chris Couhault and Alexi Suvacioglu at the BizSpark CoWorking...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/11/2012
Software Solves and Unifies -- Why Developers Work On Microsoft Stack Technology
These three videos explain what many of the digerati fail to mention -- software is not really...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/07/2012
Read About How Our Launch of the NYC AppLab Went Down at We Work
General Manager of Bing Fund Rahul Sood showed up in NYC this week to open up the new Windows App...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/06/2012
A Smart Phone for Every Stethoscope, A Solution in Every Cloud -- Diagnosis as a Platform
In many developing countries, the barriers to building rapidly a medical personnel and...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/05/2012
New Offer from RightScale Helps Startups Scale on Azure
Starting this evening, it is now possible for BizSpark startups to use RightScale to ramp up quickly...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/04/2012
A Hawk, A Lion, and a Bull All Step Up to a Digital Interactive Display and Make Advertising Interactive
Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. It's actually just a promotion for a startup that uses busy...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/27/2012
What Windows Azure Benefits Do You Get from Joining BizSpark?
Here's a video that explains it.
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/26/2012
“We are not a Microsoft Shop and I Know Very Little .NET” – How Distil Uses Windows Azure to Make Their Services Smarter
At the recent Foundercon, the private networking event hosted by TechStars, I was fortunate enough...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/16/2012
Frametastic Ports from iOS to Windows 8 -- Interview with BizSpark Startup Imaginary Feet Dev Emil Anticevic
Back in the early part of November, I cruised around San Francisco looking for developers to talk...
Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/15/2012