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

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

Wisdom comes from experience, they say. We agree. At BizSpark , we try to deliver bits of wisdom now and again to the community so that the founders, developers, engineers, and business folks out there in startup land can use it. We saw four founding ...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

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

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If you have not read Dave McClure's thoughts on the 500 Startups business model , stop now, and go read it . If you are maybe looking for a bit of light reading that explains the whole theory, culture and practice of startups and why he does what he ...read more

The second round of the Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF) program is now live: it pairs top innovators from the private sector, non-profits, and academia with top innovators in government to collaborate during focused 6-13 month “tours of duty” ...read more

Why bring one app to market when you can launch 10, 20, even 30? That is the ethos of a dynamic team of young Finnish developers who go by the wonderful name of the Magnificent Eight . As the name might suggest, this is an award-winning team of eight ...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

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

Meet DiXidiaSoft's newest creation, Realms of Swordfall , a MMORPG. They are our first online gaming company in Italy. Right now they host their gaming servers on Azure, as well as some of their internal management tools, but they have not fully launched ...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

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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

Very few things in the Silicon Valley tech scene are more refreshing than observing a group of gung ho, disruption-focused Stanford students waiting to share their idea to a group of 150 of the best and the brightest. But Microsoft was born this way, ...read more

It’s exciting enough when we hear about developers taking existing apps and putting them on our new Windows 8 platform, but it’s even more exciting when it’s a brand new app that is breaking new ground – and in children’s ...read more

When you are building your company, you always end up facing that one hardest thing, or a myriad of hardest things. Every founder has experienced it, and if they haven’t, they really haven’t been a founder. At the most recent FailCon event ...read more

We're running this blog post today to look back at the BizSpark EU Summit which we hosted in the UK. The startups we featured there were in the running for awards at the Summit. If you were following along, you may remember that one of the teams from ...read more