go to midventures

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if you have not registered for midventures launch, then go do it now! you still have time. I will be there talking about windows phone 7 and the opportunities startups have building for the platform

purple fountains?

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what is with the purple fountains in evanston? anyone from here explain?

chicago sleepy heads

heading out to the design4mobile conference and it seems I am the only one awake on the train.

Location:N Sheffield Ave,Chicago,United States

vote for me!

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if you are interested in hearing about some crazy cool startup stories i have encountered throughout the central region of the united states, go vote for my sxsw panel.

bizspark camps coming

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i am excited to announce the coming of bizspark camps to dallas, san francisco, chicago, and la. we are changing the format a bit of these bizspark camps to focus on what startups and our partners really care about… seeing kick ass code. the focus of the bizspark camps will be windows phone + windows azure. it is a perfect relationship and we are excited to have one of the leading partners in this space participate in the camps. clarity consulting will be walking through making a windows phone application make out with windows azure. yeah. pretty sweet indeed.

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live from sxsw

check out my live feed from sxsw. some places that will be featured will be the blogger lounge, the silverlight lounge, and the microsoft party.

sxsw is right around the corner

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are you going to sxsw? microsoft will be there on the expo floor, a special startup “meatup”, sponsoring our good friends at tech cocktail, bizspark accelerator, and one helluva party and interactive gallery. yeah. i’ll be pretty busy. track all the action on twitter with the hashtag #msftsxsw.

bizspark camp in nyc

bizspark camp

i am excited about the first united states bizspark camp being held in new york city on january 28-29. the event is for bizspark startups looking to target windows azure in their applications. you can find more information at one my partner in crime’s blog post. if you are a bizspark startup, check out sanjay’s post to see what you need to do to register. if you are interested in attending the pitch and networking event, go check out the meetup event here.

 

i will be there along with some other super cool microsoft folks and can’t wait to see the innovation developed on azure.

windows phone at winter wonderfest

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i had a great time this past friday at the windows phone workplayland at the navy pier winter wonderfest. i was joined by some other great microsoft folks including adam hecktman (pictured above telling all about one of the new windows phones available), chris bernard, and some great folks from the product group.  Continue Reading →

an event apart

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since i had some time today without the constant flood of email, i decided to go through the many pictures that were on my camera and found some from an event apart chicago. i attended aea for the first time and realized that there is a following associated with this event that is unsurpassed.

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