We are coming down the home stretch in preparing for the upcoming BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston (October 5-9). These are high value events that help startups build out solutions in record time by leveraging Microsoft technical experts as well as...

In addition to DreamSpark (for students) and BizSpark (for software startups), as of this morning we now have WebsiteSpark (for Web Professionals). This is an exciting milestone! WebsiteSpark provides small (10 people or less) web developer and...

I had the opportunity to be a judge for the 2009 Cantor Colburn / CCAT Innovation & Entrepreneurship Summit’s Elevator Pitch Competition (that’s a mouthful) today.  There we 45 startups presented in rapid-fire (90 second) intervals.  We...

A couple years ago, I had the opportunity to ride to the annual Sturgis Bike Week in South Dakota .  I wasn’t an avid biker (I had a small Honda 250 13 years earlier) and was primary going for the journey, not the destination.  What I witnessed...

During the final presentations, the Freeltor team encountered technical difficulties connecting to the network.  Since they had prepared their presentation using an online tool instead of PowerPoint, they were hosed - no, we didn’t stage it that...