Posts Tagged ‘Windows Azure’
Show #30: Julien Codorniou – Microsoft BizSpark
The Startup Success Podcast
This week Bob and Pat talk with Julien Codorniou who heads up Microsoft BizSpark about this program for startups. If your startup is less than 3 years old and makes less than $1 million a year, BizSpark gives you free development and production licensing and access for 3 years to all of Microsoft’s technology.
Bob talks about Aardvark.com – a very handy Social Media tool and Pat goes over the recently announced pricing for the Windows Azure Platform.
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Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast:
- The Web Startup Success Guide.
- Free sample chapter, “Social Media and your Startup“, from The Web Startup Success Guide.
- StartupToDo.com – a training/productivity community for startups and microISVs (launching this month).
- Aardvark.com.
- Microsoft BizSpark.
- If you want to apply for BizSpark, email Bob Walsh: bob.walsh@47hats.com. Please tell me about your startup or startup idea: nothing proprietary, just enough detail to differentiate it from custom freelance programming.
- Windows Azure Platform Pricing and Licensing Options.
- Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009.
Show #8: Joel Spolsky, Part 2.
The Startup Success Podcast
In our eighth show, we continue our interview with IT legend, Joel Spolsky, on the recession and startups, GYM’s future, the Cloud and more. Joel is the cofounder of Fog Creek Software (Fogbugz), the force behind the Joel on Software blog and forums, a podcaster and cofounder of Stack Overflow.
Also, Pat and I discuss a better way to ask “What app should I build as my startup?”, I suggest a good holidays thing to do for your customers, Pat makes a good pitch for Microsoft Azure, and we have another Startup for Startups for your consideration.
Download Show #8 here: startupsuccess008 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.
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Who should we interview in 2009? Send us your suggestions!
Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com.
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.
- Lou Carbone on defining your customers’ experience.
- Great e-cards to send your customers: Jacquie Lawson.
- A programmer’s best online friend: Stack Overflow.
- Joel Spolsky’s Joel on Software.
- The Business of Software forum.
- TechCrunch and Techmeme.
- Final Cut Studio 2.
- Microsoft Azure.
- Getting proactive about customer satisfaction with GetSatisfaction.com.
- Not mentioned in the podcast: Bob’s new ebook, The Twitter Survival Guide, is out. More here and here.
Show #3: News from PDC, getting startup accounting right.
Helping microISVs and startups succeed!
In our third show, Pat and I discuss the impact on startups and microISVs of various announcements at Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC). This is strategic, important stuff, whether or not you’re Microsoft-centric.
Also, I interview Mairtini Ni Dhomhnaill, Senior Vice President for the consulting firm Accretive Solutions on the basic financial and accounting knowledge every microISV and startup needs. Accretive Solutions has provided accounting, financial and other consulting services to over 500 startups, and Mairtini’s insight is something you won’t find via Google.
If you are going to make money, accounting and financing are things you need to at least know the basics of. This podcast interview with Mairtini will get you started; this webcast (sponsored by Microsoft) is the extended play version if you will.
Quick note: Tomorrow I wrap up the Startup 101 webcast series with a talk with the founders -Mark Morrison, CEO and Ian Clemens, CTO – of IDV Solutions, an enterprise software company that began as a microISV and has grown to 45 employees in just 4 years. Sign up here – it’s free. It’s live at 9am PDT, Oct. 31st and the recorded version will be available a day later at the ISV Innovation site.
Download Show #3 here: startupsuccess003 Or if you prefer, Subscribe to the podcast in Apple iTunes.
(Since these two segments are about 20 minutes each, we skipped the microISV and Microsoft tips.)
What can we do to help you? Who should we go interview? What knowledge should we go find an expert in and pick their brains? Let us know!
Bob Walsh is on twitter at http://twitter.com/bobwalsh or you can email him at bob.walsh@47hats.com
Patrick Foley is on twitter at http://twitter.com/patrickfoley or you can email him at patrick.foley@microsoft.com
Show Notes:
URLs mentioned in this episode of the Startup Success Podcast.
