BizSpark is One Year Old!
Happy Birthday BizSpark - one year old this week.
And what a year it's been. We now have over 7,500 start-ups in the program in Europe and I believe well over 25,000 in the program worldwide. Wow. Who'd have thought a year ago that would be the case?
I am really chuffed to see Europe as a region (or WE, CEE, UK, France and Germany if you want to break it down by MSFT regions) do so well and become the best performer for BizSpark, outside of the US. You can read a bit more on our progress and thinking for the year ahead on Informilo in our interview with Jennifer Schenker at the EVCA conference in Berlin a few weeks back. Jan, Cliff and myself were there to meet a load of VCs - and point them towards more BizSpark companies - in the hope that some will secure funding.
MSFT was also front and centre at the Money Talks Forum in Helsinki and the EBAN Winter Uni in Stockholm this week. Next week is all about Entrepreneurship of course...so I'm sure that will result in even more folks discovering BizSpark. Enjoy.
