Brian Johnson works with BizSpark Startups on the East Coast of the United States. For more information about the BizSpark program you can go to http://bizspark.com.
Awesome news. Hacker Chick, Abby Fichtner, has some details in the Microsoft BizSpark blog. Congats to Kinvey!
Kinvey, Backend as a Service, Closes $2M Round We knew Kinvey was up to all good things when Atlas Venture’s Fred Destin introduced their Boston 2011 TechStars Demo Day presentation with the surprise announcement that he was leading their seed round with a $1 million investment. (Okay, we actually had a pretty good idea long before that as we watched them evolve their ideas on how to help developers create Bad asS apps). And so we’re extremely excited (if not terribly surprised) to share that they just closed out that seed round at $2M. In the words of TechCrunch, Kinvey aims to let developers skip past all the boring database-building and get right into the fun stuff.
We knew Kinvey was up to all good things when Atlas Venture’s Fred Destin introduced their Boston 2011 TechStars Demo Day presentation with the surprise announcement that he was leading their seed round with a $1 million investment.
(Okay, we actually had a pretty good idea long before that as we watched them evolve their ideas on how to help developers create Bad asS apps).
And so we’re extremely excited (if not terribly surprised) to share that they just closed out that seed round at $2M. In the words of TechCrunch, Kinvey aims to let developers skip past all the boring database-building and get right into the fun stuff.
The Microsoft fiscal year (FY) started on July 1, and it’s our time of year to do things like plan our career path, training, etc. I was just looking at the training I did in Redmond (around) 10 years ago and I thought it would be interesting to post the list. Some of the classes were several hours per week or a week at a time, others are one-off lectures. Amazing to think that .NET was so new then…
C Programming II
Hacking Exposed - Live
NEO - New Employee Orientation
HailStorm Introduction
New Employee Family Orientation
Introduction to the Managed Extensions to C++
Visual Basic: Intermediate
Managing Cross-Product Partnerships
Win32 Programming
MSR Tech Festival 2002
Windows Programming in C
Rapid Development: The Ten Myths
Building .NET Applications
Scripting: Learning Perl
C++ Programming
Securing and Deploying .NET Assemblies
COM 1: Component Objects
Sysinternals: A Tour of these Powerful Tools
Debugging Windows Applications
Targeting Mobile Devices with Active Server Pages+
HTML+TIME (SMIL) 2.0 in Internet Explorer 5.5
The New WinDBG - the Tool for Hardcore Debuggin
MSR Tech Festival 2001
Using Windows Installer For Your Application
The Key to C#: Q&A with Anders Hejlsberg
Visual Basic .NET: Introduction - Online
.NET Framework And Tools
Visual C++ Internal Awareness Week: June 24 - 28, 2002
.NET Mobile Web Software Development Kit (SDK)
Visual Studio for Applications .NET Application Customization
.NET: An Introduction
Windows Installer: An Introduction
ADO.NET: Introduction
Windows NT/2000/XP/Server 2003/Vista OS Internals
Announcing IceCAP 4.1: The Tip of the Iceberg
Writing Secure Code – Enough is Enough!
Buffer Overruns in Depth
Writing Solid Code
C# Programming
Xbox .NET: Setting the Standard for Online Console Gaming
C++ Workshop: Advanced Managed Extensions
VS .NET Languages: Introduction to Visual C++ .NET
C++: Managed Extensions
Microsoft Developer Fundamentals
COM Fundamentals
Dynamics of UI Design and Program Management, Version 2.0
Design Day 2002
Extending the .NET Framework
Design without wasting time
Frameworks Class Library: A Whirlwind Tour
Designing Windows XP Icons
I met the guys from Panopto in Pittsburg a couple of years ago and they floored me with the demo of their lecture capture software product. I worked with Christopher Griffin to get them into BizSpark One and they’ve been turned out to be an excellent partner for that program. I would encourage you to check out their Silverlight-based sample recordings to see how really well done this product is.
Check out the GeekWire story below for an interview with Co-Founder (and former Microsoftie) Eric Burns.
Startup Spotlight: Carnegie Mellon transplant takes root in Seattle with Panopto Panopto was founded in 2007 with technology from Carnegie Mellon University. But the company is now growing its presence in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, thanks in part to a connection to Microsoft. The company’s co-founder and CTO, former Carnegie Mellon researcher Eric Burns, previously worked on book and academic search technologies for Microsoft’s Windows Live unit. (Now Bing). At Panopto, he’s now leading the charge to develop a video, audio and screen recorder that that helps individuals capture everything from city council meetings to academic lectures to concerts. In the latest installment of Startup Spotlight, we chatted with Burns to get his take on what makes the company tick.
Panopto was founded in 2007 with technology from Carnegie Mellon University. But the company is now growing its presence in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, thanks in part to a connection to Microsoft.
The company’s co-founder and CTO, former Carnegie Mellon researcher Eric Burns, previously worked on book and academic search technologies for Microsoft’s Windows Live unit. (Now Bing).
At Panopto, he’s now leading the charge to develop a video, audio and screen recorder that that helps individuals capture everything from city council meetings to academic lectures to concerts.
In the latest installment of Startup Spotlight, we chatted with Burns to get his take on what makes the company tick.