Tuesday, August 6, 2019
By
Ian McDonald
Early Stage Startup
Scale
Growth
Massive growth is the dream of almost every startup, but it can be a nightmare if you’re not anticipating it. If a startup signs a contract that will take them from 2 million users to over 200 million, what do they need to worry about? The most important thing is that the service needs to stay up and remain fast.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2019
By
Emily Rich
Teamgage
Scaling Startups Series
Emily Rich
Noelle Smit
Today I interview Noelle Smit, co-founder of Teamgage — a culture improvement tool for enterprise. It is the modern alternative to culture and engagement surveys, with a focus on business outcomes.
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Monday, August 5, 2019
By
Jeana Jorgensen
Ecosystem Update
Backstage Capital
Ascend
China Innovation
Canada
Over the past few months, we have had the chance to meet with thousands of incredible entrepreneurs around the world. Check out what's new for the month of July.
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Wednesday, July 17, 2019
By
Shaloo Garg
Ascend
Shaloo Garg
Startup Success
Sean Knapp
[Shaloo Garg- Managing Director, Microsoft for Startups, Silicon Valley/Southwest; talking with Sean Knapp - Founder & CEO at Ascend.io]It was yet another Saturday morning in the Bay Area. After…
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Monday, July 15, 2019
By
Ted Roduner
Microsoft Inspire
Microsoft Inspire kicks off today in Las Vegas today. Hailing from over 130 countries, thousands of our leading partners will meet to connect, collaborate and celebrate as one community. This year,…
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Wednesday, July 10, 2019
By
Jeana Jorgensen
Jeana Jorgensen
Ecosystem Update
Startup Stories
June has wrapped which means summer is in full swing. The team has pulled together highlights of some of the top news, startup stories and events they have encountered over the past month. From diagnosing the state-of-affairs for female founders to exploring the merits of the startup ecosystem in Beijing, this month’s edition covers a range of topics. Let’s dig in.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
By
Microsoft for Startups
Female Founders
Startups
Female Founders Alliance
We recently had the opportunity to speak to Female Founders Alliance CEO and Founder, Leslie Feinzaig, about her path to founding the organization as well as the unique opportunities and challenges facing women entrepreneurs.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2019
By
Raz Bachar
ScaleUp
Tel Aviv
It only happens a few times over the course of a career, that you shift from a company you’ve been with over seven years to start a new adventure. That was the journey Raz Bachar recently undertook when he transitioned from AWS, his professional home for much of the past decade, to join Microsoft for Startups as Managing Director in Tel Aviv.
What motivated this new journey? Or, more directly, why startups, why Israel, why Microsoft? Read on to find out.
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
By
Jeana Jorgensen
Ecosystem Update
Microsoft Build
Collision Conference
Webit
CTO
Events
Spring has arrived and that means our conference season is in full swing. We started off May with Build 2019, Microsoft’s premier developer event in Seattle followed by dozens of startup events from Vivatech in Paris, Collision in Toronto and Webit in Bulgaria. In the past month, we’ve had the chance to meet thousands of incredible startups and their incredible founders.
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