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We've recently published case studies on two of the companies on the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program, Corebridge and Viapost . Both are great examples of the business benefits that startup companies can get from using Microsoft technologies...
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Microsoft Startup Zone. If you are a startup you should visit the Microsoft StartupZone . The StartupZone is managed by the Emerging Business Team which is focused on helping startups build a relationship with Microsoft. There is a special Partner Section...
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Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference was held last week in Houston. If you didn't attend you can see videos of sessions here . There were over 10,000 people at the WPC this year. Microsoft loves partners, and over 90% of Microsoft's revenues...
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Recently, we received a request from New Zealand to repost a blog by Don Dodge. We discovered a cool company in New Zealand that is helping start-ups in New Zealand succeed in the global online space. It's interesting how many similar and also creative...
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March 24, 2008 | San Francisco, California | The Palace Hotel Based on the success of last year's forum and request for similar events from attendees, Microsoft is pleased to announce the second Open Source ISV Forum for solution providers using open...
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IdeaBlade, Inc. EMERYVILLE, CALIFORNIA www.ideablade.com Achieved Profitability and Microsoft Gold Partner Status Build better apps—faster. IdeaBlade’s application server and development framework accelerate the development of Microsoft .NET enterprise...
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Many virtualization startups I’ve met with recently have expressed some degree of hesitation, even skepticism, about developing support for Hyper-V . I find this perplexing. First, VMware is likely to accelerate their annexation of adjacent markets currently...
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Today I spent the afternoon and evening at the Second Chance Tuesday event in London. In the afternoon there was an "Early Stage Funding Workshop" for an audience of about 100 companies, which consisted of a panel discussion with entrepreneurs...
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February 20, 2008 | Webinar Cutting-Edge Technologies Available for Licensing. Microsoft Intellectual Property (IP) Licensing and IP Ventures are part of a newer group in Microsoft that offers access to Microsoft technologies including component source...
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After John Shinal and I talked in late November, we followed up with another short talk about “lessons learned” and advice for startups. This is short but contains three ideas I think are important for startups. I have run startups and I’ve worked with...
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Late last year, I spoke with Andy Plesser , founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and how they related to startups in particular. Andy and I had a follow up talk looking into the process of partnering with Microsoft, and our engagements...
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In late November, I spoke to John Shinal at Vator.tv about the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program and other ways that the Emerging Business Team can help a startup partner with Microsoft. The full transcript is below, or you can watch the video right...
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Program designed to foster success of high-potential startups developing software on the Microsoft platform. REDMOND, Wash. — Jan. 22, 2008 — Building on its commitment to support startups developing innovative software solutions on the Microsoft platform...
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ScreenTonic SA Paris, France www.screentonic.com Ranks as Leading Mobile Ad Platform, Works With Major European Carriers, Acquired by Microsoft 2.5 billion mobile phones in use around the world—and still growing. By 2011, advertisers will spend $14.4...
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I spend most of my time talking to entrepreneurs who have started companies. Reading Robert Scoble's story about why he decided to not start a company, and instead go to work for Fast Company, presents the other side of the story...the more common...