Startup Weekend and the Startup America Partnership announced today that they will join together to create UP Global , a new organization supporting the creation of vibrant entrepreneurial communities around the world. With generous support from The Kauffman ...read more

Meet the founders of Pre-Apps -one of the newest partners joining the BizSpark community . With over 30,000 new apps introduced each month, PreApps is a marketplace to discover, rate, and download the best mobile apps coming soon. They also have an exclusive ...read more

While web-based video streaming and digital audio has become increasingly sophisticated, the quality of photograph images viewed online has lagged behind. At the moment, if someone was to try to upload a high quality image for viewing on a PC, tablet ...read more

While I entirely agree with Sheryl Sandberg’s “lean in” approach, I do believe that her methodology misses a critical component necessary in order for women to reach their goals, especially when it comes to building and scaling start ...read more

A good, problem-solving approach to investment and company formation. That's Paul Berry, former CTO of The Huffington Post, and current CEO of RebelMouse , a social curation tool / platform that makes your social media doings so much more cohesive and ...read more

Great interview with John Borthwick of Betaworks, who describes the "unusual" structure of Betaworks and where the idea came from. It's an evolutionary idea of capital and economies. Essentially, Betaworks is an all-in-one, in-house assembly line for ...read more

Yu-kai Chou is an experienced Entrepreneur as well as a Gamification Consultant & Speaker. He has been a regular speaker/lecturer on Gamification at organizations like Stanford University, Google Inc., The Internet Marketing Conference, Draper Richards ...read more

There is something strange and beguiling about startup marketing. On the one hand, you shouldn't have to do any marketing at all, right? After all, your product sells and distributes itself by being functional, consumer-centric, or specific to the enterprise ...read more

In your free moments, what do you think about? For many people there is a lingering idea, an interest attached to a "what if". What separates the average person from an entrepreneur is not genius, it's action. I am an average guy from a small resort ...read more

Start-up competition season is in full swing and a couple of the big ones - the annual TNW Europe and TechCrunch Disrupt NYC – are both coming up later this month (go BizSpark finalists!) So we thought it would be interesting to get some ‘behind ...read more

Startups and entrepreneurs in Stockholm are gathering in force this coming Saturday, 20 th April, at the annual StartupDay . Hosted by the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, over 700 people have already registered to attend the event, being held at ...read more

We do a weekly analysis of the questions -- literally, these are questions -- that are being asked in our networks each week. So far this week, these are the five most important questions, based on how often we have seen them discussed in this form, or ...read more

Through our partnership with TechCocktail , we have three pieces of advice for entrepreneurs building their own companies. Video Alex Chang of One Technologies and his simple advice for entrepreneurs . Since 2000, Alex has amassed considerable ...read more

Could be wrong, but I believe investors and startup people are in what you call a deployment period. We are searching out new ways to finance. This blog post was written by Douglas Crets, Community Manager and Social Strategist of the Microsoft BizSpark ...read more

Great opening launch by Cesar Salazar, who merged Mexican.vc with Dave McClure's 500 Startups, as he kicked off 500 Startups Mexican Demo Day . 12 startup founders gave their demos at our BizSpark Lab today, and here are a few shots that depict the ...read more

Investors are pointing to a rising M&A trend for the enterprise and startups ecosystem. Windows Challenges are ending, and new contests are beginning. We are still taking applications for the second class of the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure ...read more

Last night, we listened to a great evening of stories from Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky . The event was hosted by PandoDaily, and it was the best conversation I have ever witnessed with a founder of a startup . Did you know that at one point Brian was ...read more

One of the real benefits of technology we have been able to provide to rural Nepal has been to teach digital literacy skills to middle-aged women who need to get connected with their family members working abroad. Nepalese members of the diaspora are ...read more

Facebook has a really poor way of archiving and curating great conversations. Since Facebook is basically collecting all the data for itself, you can't really keep track of it. That's why every week we take the time to archive the great conversatoins ...read more

We caught up with ZenDeals co-founders Chris Couhault and Alexi Suvacioglu at the BizSpark CoWorking Lab holiday party last night. It was fortuitous because they were about to l aunch out of stealth at midnight . I asked them a few questions about ...read more

These three videos explain what many of the digerati fail to mention -- software is not really eating the world. It's really creating new growth. It is now so easy to get software -- you can get free Windows and Azure stuff through Microsoft BizSpark ...read more

In many developing countries, the barriers to building rapidly a medical personnel and infrastructure are so huge that millions of children die every year due to complications from easily treated illnesses. One of those illnesses is pneumonia, which actually ...read more

Starting this evening, it is now possible for BizSpark startups to use RightScale to ramp up quickly on Windows Azure. If you haven't looked into Microsoft BizSpark yet, this would be a good time to do so. BizSpark gives young startups making less than ...read more

At the recent Foundercon, the private networking event hosted by TechStars , I was fortunate enough to meet Andrew Stein, VP of Development at Distil and an alumni of TechStars Cloud Accelerator . Written by Allan Da Costa Pinto. Allan is a Technical ...read more

Microsoft Technical Evangelist Steve Seow takes us through the 54 hours of glory that go into doing a Startup Weekend and coming out of it with something awesome. And if no product, at least a bunch of great friends. You can get in touch with Steve on ...read more