Since announcing our participation as a network partner for Microsoft’s BizSpark program we’ve been signing up at least one startup a day into the program. I have received nothing but positive comments from entrepreneurs on how much they’re saving on software licenses with this program. On Thursday Microsoft is coming to town (registration here) for an event to celebrate startups and kickoff this great program. Our friends at the Startup District are helping to put together the [...]

Today we’re checking out Ready to Commercialize, a conference created by the University of Texas Office of Technology Commercialization. Many of us have pre-conceived notions about entrepreneurs being the guy in the garage trying to work on an idea that is going to revolutionize an industry. But we sometimes forget that right here in our own backyard in Austin, the University of Texas has an incredible number of faculty and graduate students creating new technologies [...]