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...
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...
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....
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,...
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....
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...
Date: 11/12/2013
BizSpark celebrates Five Year Anniversary
When we announced a program for startups called BizSpark, the idea that “Microsoft cares about...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Date: 04/30/2013