Guest blog by Daryll McDade So…we made a movie.   Not just a shaky-cam movie with a handheld camera edited in Movie Maker…but a REAL movie…a feature-length, theater-ready documentary film with an award-winning production crew.   The film is called...

In December 2009, I was fortunate enough to meet Colette Ballou . We were both at LeWeb and my colleague, Julien Codorniou introduced us.   Colette is a PR-guru and she lives, breathes, loves startups!   In her words “I’m a sucker for startups” and I...

Happy to annonce one of my Portfolio companies - Mintigo raised $9M in venture financing from Sequoia.   Mintigo has very innovative ways to assist businesses acquire new customers - This is the second company in my portforlio to be funded by Sequoia...

The Wall Street Journal has done a great review of one of my portforlio companies - Digital Folio. Walt Mossberg is just as excited as I am about the great potential for this company.  See the videos on Fox News at: http://video.foxbusiness.com...

The BizSpark Startup of the Day is Kinvey, a TechStars Boston 2011 Company. Below you will find an interview with Sravish Sridhar, Founder and CEO of Kinvey. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website: www...

BizSpark Startups…get your application in for the LeWeb’11 Startup Competition!   LeWeb is Europe’s premier tech event held in Paris, France. Microsoft has been a supporter and sponsor of this event from its inception.   In 2010, it was attended by 3000...

And…. It’s a wrap. Phew. What an incredible few days.   From Startup Weekend , to DEMO Fall , with Startup America .   Here’s the premiere of our movie from the experience:     Today at #DEMOcon we reached the finale of our Startup...

Do you have mobile application in an app store?   Do you know how it’s doing?   Do you know where your app is selling best? Is it doing better in the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace or the Apple App Store or the Android Market?   Look no further than Mopapp...

Great facility in Silicon Valley, 3 tracks, 54 hours… Great cocktail to keep 300 talented people or   50 teams busy at creating a company over a week-end. Many of you are familiar with Startup Week-End , but this one was MEGA, the largest ever and...

Welcome back to Silicon Valley, Microsoft BizSpark European Summit winner, Mopapp .     Not content with winning Seedcamp Berlin in May this year, Mopapp took first prize at our summit in Brussels in June and then secured a coveted spot in Startup...

Invest in ideas that accelerate people’s happiness. That may not be the approach of your average angel investor or VC, but that’s Ashton Kutcher’s overarching philosophy when investing in early stage tech startups. Michael Arrington interviewed Ashton...

Greetings from the Startup America HD Lounge at #DEMOcon   Over 2,300 organisations worldwide count themselves as Network Partners, and this community of incubators, investors, accelerators, advisors, government agencies, mentoring groups, hosters...

The BizSpark Startup of the Day is Fivespark, a DogPatch Labs startup based in the US. Below you will find an interview with Karl Kemp, Founder and CEO of Fivespark. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website...

The BizSpark startup of the day is Rentcycle, based in the US. Below you will find an interview with Tim Hyer, Founder and CEO of Rentcycle. All the best to them and congratulations for being the startup of the day! Website: www.rentcycle.com ...