I am always excited to attend my favorite startup, tech, social, friendship, etc. conference of the year. It happens towards the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year every year and I am normally spent. Microsoft BizSpark and I have been proud partners from the very beginning and I love to meet up with old and new friends. Honestly,
It is amazing what kids can do with some great mentoring and guidance from FIRST. Check out these robots these high school kids demoed during the TechStars Cloud Demo Day 2012 break.
I am here in lovely San Antonio, TX waiting to see some amazing startups pitch what they have been working on (in stealth mode) for the past few months at TechStars Cloud.
I had the pleasure of being a judge at Tech Cocktail’s #StartupLife celebration and could not stop playing with Brass Monkey. You have my vote guys!
Well, it is that time of the year again. SxSW is upon us all and this year seems a bit different from past years I have attended. First, Microsoft is calmly approaching the event this year and will not be overloading the week with parties, events, and activities. This is very refreshing. However, we will
As I travel around, it is amazing to find out just how many startups still do not know about BizSpark. I spoke at the Startup Illinois 1st Anniversary event a couple days ago in Chicago and had so many emails after the event asking for more information on this “amazing program for tech startups called BizSpark”.
In case you didn’t hear the big announcement yesterday about BizSpark Plus, check it out here. The bigger announcement is that our very own Excelerate Labs will be participating in the BizSpark Plus program just in time for applicants to start applying. Also, today, Excelerate graduate and BizSpark company Buzz Referrals just announced their series a funding
I had a chance to sit down with Ben Milne of Dwolla (http://dwolla.com) at Chicago Ideas Week, an amazing BizSpark company changing the way consumers and merchants think about transactions. Dwolla also has a rich API for developers to take advantage of their fast and secure payment processing system. Ben is also speaking at ThincIowa and
Chris Bernard and Brian Gorbett from Microsoft BizSpark are heading to Des Moines, Iowa to represent BizSpark and talk to entrepreneurs from both startups and large corporations. Should be an interesting mix. Unfortunately, because of a flight cancellation, we arrived later than we wanted to but still did not miss any of the great speakers. Being entrepreneurial
If you were given 54 hours to build a businesses, what would you create? That’s the question 60 Chicago students and community members faced for the the 2011 Startup Weekend challenge. The event brought together developers, graphics designers, business people, and big thinkers together to build a web or mobile application that could function as
