BizSpark

Larry Gregory talked to Eric Burns, John Ketchpaw from Panopto at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston hosted by Sanjay Jain. With few days of design and development effort Panopto leveraged Taskbar, Speech-to-text, multi-touch capabilities of Windows 7 to enhance their…

Larry Gregory talked to Anand Agarawala, Patrick Dubroy from BumpTop at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston hosted by Sanjay Jain. With few days of design and development effort BumpTop  brings a 3-D desktop leveraging multi-touch and patented advanced…

Larry Gregory talked to Alex Moore from Baydin at a recent Microsoft BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston, hosted by Sanjay Jain. With few days of design and development effort Baydin created a working prototype to provide intelligence for outlook email messages leveraging Windows 7 Federated…

Larry Gregory talked to Denise Scoppetta, Glenn McGregor from AnswerPoint Medical Systems at a recent BizSpark Incubation Week in Boston hosted by Sanjay Jain. With a few days of design and development effort AnswerPoint Medical Systems created an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)…

Larry Gregory talked to the student team of Bo Yu and Changwei Liu from George Mason University at a recent BizSpark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.Their research interests and technology focuses on making it easier to access your medical records in a secure manner.Both…

Larry Gregory talked to the team of Kevin Mann and Tony Williams of http://www.takepublishing.com at a recent Bizspark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.Their solution called TakeComics finally solves the problem of trying to find that missing issue of your favorite comic as well as…

Linxter is a BizSpark startup that's changing the way that developers think about traditional middleware. Last week I caught up with Linxter CEO Jason Milgram, to talk about the company, messaging, and the BizSpark program. Here's the company description from the Linxter web site: Linxter is…

Xobni is an Outlook plug-in that lets users easily connect to their contacts through the various social networks. The program comes in two versions, one free and now a new pay version that ads enhanced features. I recently talked to Matt Brezina, one of the Xobni founders, about the…

One of the issues that new startups often face is the where to work question. Do we build in the garage/basement, or do we go after some office space? One new alternative that's catching momentum nationwide is coworking. Coworking allows community members to share the costs of an office space that…

During 2nd CRM Incubation Week in Boston, MA, I took the opportunity to sit down with all startup teams to discuss their experiences and perspectives on Microsoft’s investments (BizSpark, XRM, Azure) to make them succeed in today’s economy. In this series, I am pleased to introduce…