Community

What Makes a Community Meaningful?

In early May, at Startup Camp in San Francisco, I had the chance to talk to two startups about their open source projects and how community plays a role in these projects. I have been thinking about the best kind of community we could create on the Microsoft...

Published Fri, Jul 07 2008 12:14 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Community, Tools for Startups, Startups

Zino Society -- Some Startup Will Begin the Day with a Pitch and End it with $100k

Yesterday I met with Mary Holmes from Seattle's Zino Society, an interesting group whose mission, among hosting a high degree of wine-oriented social events, includes supporting the growth and success of entrepreneurial ventures. The Society's...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 7:29 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

What Half of Your Brain and Google Have in Common

Several weeks ago I read a short profile in the Wall Street Journal about Charles Wolf, a man who, while suffering left-brain damage from multiple bouts with cancer, has managed to build an investment portfolio that has beaten the DJIA and doubled its...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 3:04 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

A much easier way to keep track of new SharePoint content published on MSDN and TechNet

The following RSS feeds have been available for a few months now, but we still get questions on a weekly basis from people wondering how they can keep track of SharePoint oriented content that is published on TechNet and MSDN. Feed for new SharePoint...

Published Thu, Jul 07 2008 2:59 AM by Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog

Filed under: Technical Readiness, IT Pros

Why Powerset is important and different

Microsoft announced yesterday the acquisition of Powerset, a natural language search engine. Techmeme has lots of stories about the acquisition. Today the stories are all a bout Microsoft/Yahoo potential deals . But lets take a step back and look at how...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 9:35 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Acquisitions, Windows Live

Lanchester's Laws for Startups

Interesting rule of thumb based on military operational research performed by Frederick Lanchester during World War I: If you’re trying to enter an existing market where the dominant player has greater than 40% market share, you will need to spend at...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2008 1:40 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Startup, Entrepreneur, lanchester, segmentation

Marc Andreessen Joins Facebook Board

The news today was Marc Andreessen's joining the board of Facebook. From Netscape to Facebook, some interesting ironies along the way. Marc is also a founder of Ning, a social networking application. So why is this important to startups? It's...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 9:00 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Entrepreneurs, Tips for Startups, Startup

Go Public? (Why Would Anyone Want To Do That?)

Over the last few weeks I’ve seen an uptick in news articles citing the lack of tech IPOs (my colleague Don Dodge wrote on this just days ago). Don mentioned some of the macro-economic factors driving the dearth of tech IPOs. But there is another...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 3:11 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Microsoft acquires Powerset

Microsoft has agreed to acquire Powerset, a Natural Language search engine, founded by Barney Pell. Satya Nadella, Senior Vice President, Search, Portal, and Advertising said on his blog ; Powerset will join our core Search Relevance team, remaining intact...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 2:57 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Acquisition

Continuous Replication Deep Dive White Paper is here...

Many of you have been wondering how continuous replication works in Exchange 2007. The Continuous Replication Deep Dive whitepaper discusses how log shipping, log inspection, and log replay work within Exchange 2007. In addition, the paper...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 12:25 PM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Mailbox, Documentation, Clustering

Information security weakest link? Stolen laptops and cell phones

Over 600,000 laptops are reported lost or stolen every year at US airports according to a ComputerWorld story. The story, based on a survey by the Ponemon Institute says that 65% of them are never recovered. Laptops are most often lost at security checkpoints...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:55 AM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Exchange 2007 Performance Counters and Thresholds

Performance analysis and troubleshooting can be a very complex and daunting area with Exchange Server. Being able to quickly and accurately identify and resolve issues requires a thorough understanding of the most interesting and important performance...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 10:04 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Filed under: Exchange 2007, Role: Client Access, Troubleshooting, Role: Mailbox, Role: Edge Transport, Role: Hub Transport, Documentation, Role: Unified Messaging

Did you just say you wanted a large mailbox?

So you've heard some folks saying large mailboxes are a good idea.. Your users have been screaming for mailboxes with more than 1GB quotas. Your management wants you to be able to recover from outages in minutes, not days. Everyone is telling you...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2008 9:47 AM by You Had Me At EHLO...

Where Are They Now—IP Commerce Revisited

IP Commerce DENVER, COLORADO http://www.ipcommerce.com/ IP Commerce Has Raised More Than $34 Million in Funding, and Secured Key Financial Institutions and Software Companies As Customers IP Commerce is the creator of the world’s first open commerce network...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 6:20 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

Filed under: Where Are They Now, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, IP Commerce

Neurologically Based Advice for Acquiring Risk Tolerance: Start Early

A recent study published in the journal Neuron , as reported in Ars Technica , has particularly relevant conclusions for the entrepreneurial mind—both positive and negative. John Timmer reports in Ars Technica that “in the brain, neural activity...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2008 4:25 PM by Microsoft Startup Zone

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