Startup Weekend Tampa – April 13-15, 2012 (Quick Note – At Microsoft we do event reports when we participate in big community events so we can share experiences and let our co-workers know what we’re up. This was really a fantastic event so I wanted to...

Pun aside, Wappwolf is based at Rocketspace on Fremont Street in San Francisco . It's run by Roland Trimmel, who is from Austria, and his team, also from Austria. They have an automation app for documents put into dropbox that is easy to use and that...

After much anticipation, Microsoft Retail Stores opened its 15 th store Thursday at the Stanford Shopping Center in Palo Alto, California. The second Store in the Silicon Valley region was welcomed to the Palo Alto-area by local influencers, executives...

Guest blog by Ruud de Jonge This week sees The Next Web conference taking place in Amsterdam, so it is good timing for our local BizSpark champ, Mark Voermans, to give us an insight into start-ups and entrepreneurship in the country. But first, a bit...

All sorts of guessing and excitement about the new Microsoft investment in Barnes & Noble today . One thing is certain, Microsoft is all about the cloud and putting apps on devices. From the press release: One of the first benefits for customers...

An Israeli startup called Soluto switched to Windows Azure to help it deliver Soluto to more than 3 million PCs worldwide, maintain its market momentum, and uncap its business potential. That's what happens when you win Tech Crunch Disrupt and people...

I tell this to startups all the time. You need to test your sites and products against IE, even if that isn’t your preferred browser. CNET posted a story today that shows the increasing usage of IE on the desktop. You can check out the story here: Microsoft...

Thanks to Rob Caron for posting these great links for developers today . Keep coming back for this information if you are interested in developing on Windows devices or if you currently do develop using Microsoft products and software. Jason...

Startupbootcamp Amsterdam, the Dutch branch of the pan-European startup accelerator programme, is teaming up with Microsoft® BizSpark® . The latter will support the Amsterdam programme by allocating products, software services and organisational...

By: Ahmed Siddiqui, Startup Weekend San Francisco Bay Area Coordinator & Founder of Go Go Mongo! It seems like getting a technical co-founder is all the rage here in Silicon Valley. You have an awesome idea, and you have a killer application...

By Claire Lee This weekend – if you are signed up for the Gaming track at Mega Startup Weekend , you have the chance to meet with Adam Smith – Lead Developer, Kinect for Windows SDK. He and the rest of the Kinect for Windows team bring...

Back in February we had a great series of Windows Phone 7 talks we did at Seed Philly that culminated in a demo night where startups showed off some pretty interesting Windows Phone 7 applications. During the weeks that we held the event, we heard from...

by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Bizspark Building Robots for the Blind, and Other Apps for Culture Whenever you see the name Ahmed Siddiqui, you think good things. He’s part of Startup Weekend, the organizer of the 54-hour...

Your friends are really good at telling you what to wear, or whether your hair looks good in the morning. Why wouldn't they be good at giving tips at all the places you need to go to, or for the restaurants you want to eat? HashTip gives you instantaneous...

Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft BizSpark Lise Quintana is a storyteller and a techie and she introduced me to some concepts this weekend that made me think about building apps in the cloud. I headed down to Santa Cruz this...

Guest blog by Ruud De Jonge The world of employment is changing. There is a huge trend towards contractor-based relationships, where employers use teams or individuals for specific projects or timescales. In the IT sector alone, our research shows...

Startup culture. Highs and lows. Dread and exasperation. Glory and elation. What really sucks about running a startup? What do you love? We asked the startup community at our Microsoft BizSpark Facebook Page to take a read on their startup experience...

Context Matters Matt Marshall jumps on stage and talking quickly and with gusto talks about his global jaunt looking for the best companies. He mentions Israel and says "context matters." He talks about Israelis being a little frustrated because...

Many of the nearly 50,000 startups hosted on the Azure Cloud may not know how much support and offers Microsoft is giving to those teams. Here is a link that puts it all in one place. BizSpark Partner Offers . Have a great weekend in the cloud....

Now You Know Why TourWrist Is Not Just a Panorama Photo App (Photo Credit: Rosefirerising on Flickr ) Written by Douglas Crets, Developer Evangelist and Editor, Microsoft BizSpark Program TourWrist is an information translator that allows...

When a man running information technology for a limousine company started testing out Windows System Center 2012 cloud feature, he turned his car service company into a company that could help other businesses . The Wall Street Journal has a great...

There's been a shift in how Microsoft interacts with the market. Locating a headquarters in Silicon Valley was a first clue. Now it's beginning to emerge that their relationships with investors and incubators means a lot more than brand presence. Real...

Blog by Steve Seow: On March 16 in Seattle, I partnered with Luis Aburto, CEO of Scio Consulting (a local Azure consulting group) to host Startup Conversations . Pitching in with organizing the event was Red Russak of Startup City with the exquisite...

Guest blog by Ruud de Jonge When we lifted the hood on Windows Mobile 7 for developers a while back, there was a lot of excitement from the BizSpark startup community here in Europe. While we’d like to think that was just about the quality of...

By Claire Lee The Windows team is in town this week from rainy Redmond to give you world-class, expert training on how to build Windows 8 apps that rock! If you haven’t heard, Windows 8 is currently in preview and is going to be the next version...