BizSpark Group Blog

APPLY for Microsoft Ventures Accelerator - Berlin

Apply now for the 2nd batch of the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator in Berlin Are you an early-stage...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/05/2014

These Windows 8 and Windows Phone Apps Just Made Your New Year Bright

We told you earlier today that the fun was not going to stop with just a few Windows 8 apps made by...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/24/2013

Windows 8 Apps That Should be On Your End of Year List

The holidays are here, and that means one thing: you are not going to be doing much work. We hope....

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/24/2013

Join BizSpark for a Studio Taping of The BizSpark Show with Special Guest Joni Cobb, PIPELINE CEO

Join a studio filled with Silicon Valley's Microsoft BizSpark members via our Livestream on Monday,...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 12/05/2013

Testbirds Extending Its Wings in German Market -- An Interview with a BizSpark Founder

Interview with Georg Hansbauer (Co-founder of Testbirds) Testbirds s a mobile crowdtesting company....

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/15/2013

Meet the 1World Online App

One of our newest members, 1WorldOnline, has a brand new app in the Windows Store. They offer this...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/12/2013

BizSpark celebrates Five Year Anniversary

When we announced a program for startups called BizSpark, the idea that “Microsoft cares about...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 11/07/2013

WHO, first…then HOW MUCH: Investment Advice from DEMO

This morning at DEMO Fall 2013 in Santa Clara, Erick Schonfeld (@erickschonfeld), Executive Producer...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 10/16/2013

Crowdnetic Builds a Mission Control for Crowdfunding

The current crowdfinancing environment got a huge kick of momentum earlier this Monday when the...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/26/2013

Microsoft Developers Capture Third Place at Tech Crunch Disrupt Hackathon

By the time TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon 2013 was over this weekend, five Microsoft developer...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 09/09/2013

Special SlideShare Offer for BizSpark Members: "The Startup Of __________" on Twitter #mystartupstory

Every person, product, team and company started somewhere. What's that story? What were your...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/15/2013

Windows 8 Store Application Development Simplified, by Sonal Mane

Welcome to the ‘Windows 8 Store Application Development Simplified’ series. In meeting...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 08/12/2013

The One Word You Don’t Use to Describe Your Mission-Driven Company

Here’s the simple story of how a simple app in the Windows Store gained 10,000 users in just a...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/28/2013

Tracy Lee, CEO, Dishcrawl: Boost Growth Through Strategic Serendipity

We talked to Tracy Lee, CEO of Dishcrawl, a 125-city foodie networking series that works kind of...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/18/2013

Outsider Startups AirPR, Plandree, and Babelverse: True Disruption Requires a Collaborative Overhaul of Markets

Are you working on a truly disruptive technology? Here's one sign that you are -- people who hold...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/18/2013

The BizSpark Show Is Helping Startups Scale

When we started The Microsoft BizSpark Show only two short months ago (or maybe it was three months...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/15/2013

There Is No Signal In Your Signal Anymore: Why Startup Marketing Needs a Six Step Social Marketing Methodology

Many of the startups in our 50,000+ membership roll have asked our team for some advice on social...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/08/2013

How Pixsi Reimagines and Transforms the Shopping Experience

Founder and CEO Scott Andrews (www.linkedin.com/in/scottjandrews) conceived the ideas behind Pixsi...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/06/2013

Bringing Volume to Serendipity: BizSpark Grows Under Microsoft Ventures, Germany Opens Microsoft Accelerator to Packed Event

A high-caliber panel of judges chose Spreaker, a digital music sharing service, as the most...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/04/2013

Windows 8 Design Principles Simplified Part 3 - Fast and Fluid

Welcome to the 'Windows 8 design principles for dummies' series. One of the key reasons for apps...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 07/01/2013

Time Is Running Out to Vote for the BizSpark People's Choice Award 2013

On July 4, twelve of the top BizSpark startup founders in Europe will gather in Berlin to talk shop...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/27/2013

European Startup 7Write Closes Seed Round of $250,000

This blog post is written by Mark Voermans, Audience Marketing Manager for Microsoft in The...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/25/2013

Vote for the Microsoft BizSpark Euro Summit People's Choice Winner -- Poll Open Until July 4

Every year, we take the ten to twelve hottest startups in the BizSpark program from Europe and vote...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/24/2013

Tiago Fernandes Remembers the LightBulb That Created Taggeo, a BizSpark App from Portugal

Inspiration for start-ups can come from all kinds of sources, but often, the start-up’s...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/23/2013

Pride in Craftsmanship -- Windows 8 Development Part 2

Sonal Mane, a Microsoft startup technologist in Chicago, provides us with the second chapter in a...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/23/2013

BizSpark Member myhomehelper Fights Dementia With The Cloud, Makes Technology4Good Finals

A one-man Microsoft BizSpark company from Hull is up against the likes of Barclays Bank with a...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/23/2013

Interview with SiSense VP of Marketing Bruno Aziza: On Growth and Gain in Big Data

SiSense is one the newest big data analytics companies you might have heard about recently. Over the...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/22/2013

Instagram Video and Facebook in Asia -- We Chat Live with David Weekly, Facebook Developer Advocate

Douglas Crets is talking with David Weekly, Facebook's Developer Advocate for Asia, at 3pm Pacific...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/20/2013

Technology That Speaks for Itself: Nova, from Swedish Firm Veridict

Here’s a situation with which we can all identify. You’re out of the office working from...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/20/2013

Doing More With Less in Windows 8 Development -- (Part One)

Sonal Mane, a Startup Technologist working for Microsoft in Chicago, walks you through steps to make...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/17/2013

Consumer Decisions Through Scarcity and the Perception of Value by Yu-kai Chou

Today we bring you a story about the flaw inherent to traditional economic theory, and an inherent...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/14/2013

Europe's Top Judges and Entrepreneur Talent Join the European BizSpark Summit in Berlin July 4, 2013

On July 4, Microsoft Germany will host ten finalists that represent the top entrepreneurial talent...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/14/2013

Get Your Map of the Microsoft Development Platform World

This map comes from Microsoft Technical Evangelist Vitor Ciaramella. Feel free to share.

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/10/2013

BizSpark Members Pitch Their Startups in Less Than 140 Characters

Here are today's #BZPitch pitches. When you sign up to Microsoft BizSpark, you are introduced to...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/06/2013

Kushal Shah Wants to Destroy Cold Calling -- Meet O Funnel, a Windows Azure Accelerator Startup

On June 21, the Windows Azure Accelerator powered by TechStars will showcase a number of startups...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/04/2013

New Flexibility Comes to Windows Azure Benefits for Microsoft BizSpark Startups

Today, Windows Azure announced enhancements and changes in the Windows Azure Offer available to...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/03/2013

BetaWorks: "A Collection of Things" and Looking Holistically at the Wild West of Social Web

In 2011, BetaWorks CEO John Borthwick and his management team gave back $27 million "and then some"...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 06/03/2013

Peer Into Real Time Usage with Tap-O-Mizer, a Microsoft BizSpark Startup Tool Released This Weekend

The continually morphing Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 ecosystem added another feature this weekend...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/28/2013

Up Global: Startup Weekend and Startup America Form New Partnership to Build Entrepreneurs in a Big Way

Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership announced today that they will join together to...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/23/2013

BizSpark Members Can Get Free Exposure for Apps with PreApps

Meet the founders of Pre-Apps -one of the newest partners joining the BizSpark community . With over...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/22/2013

People In A Line of Code: Instant Retail Through Face Recognition?

We don't know what the future will bring. Within reason. I do know that in three days I will...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/20/2013

Keeping the Front End Progress Front of Mind

These guys won the best Windows 8 Hack award at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2013: Pasha and Pelle. They...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/14/2013

Prodibi: Swiss Rebels Give Due Respect to Web Photo Enthusiasts With Their BizSpark Software Innovation

While web-based video streaming and digital audio has become increasingly sophisticated, the quality...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/13/2013

Azure in the Valley: Microsoft Accelerator in Tel Aviv Visits Microsoft Silicon Valley

Israeli Windows Azure Demo Day comes has come and gone twice, and this time there is evidence of...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/09/2013

Opinion Piece: Sponsorship is Key When Leaning In

While I entirely agree with Sheryl Sandberg’s “lean in” approach, I do believe...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/07/2013

Schedule: Startuplandia Interviews with Up and Coming and Established Entrepreneurs and Investors

We are building up our Microsoft BizSpark Startuplandia Interviews schedule and it's getting really...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/06/2013

Practice Your Music: Bringing Harmony to a Tech-Music Business

So what’s it like to launch an app, if your company is from completely outside the tech...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/04/2013

Paul Berry and RebelMouse Are Solving the Social Media Fragmented Identity Problem

A good, problem-solving approach to investment and company formation. That's Paul Berry, former CTO...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/03/2013

Meet Denis Crowley During Live Chat May 23

We are honored that Denis Crowley, Founder of awesome check-in and recommendations app Foursquare,...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 05/03/2013

Speek No Evil: Meet Speek Co-Founders at TechCrunch Disrupt NY Today

This is part two in a series of blog posts and interviews about Microsoft BizSpark companies that...

Author: BizSpark Online Date: 04/30/2013

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