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01:36 PM Monday, June 30, 2008
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Last week I sat down with Deborah Gage of the San Francisco Chronicle. We talked about how I came to work at Microsoft and what my mission here is, as well as how Microsoft works with software startup companies, how we acquire and integrate them into Read More...
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07:32 PM Friday, February 08, 2008
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After John Shinal and I talked in late November, we followed up with another short talk about “lessons learned” and advice for startups. This is short but contains three ideas I think are important for startups. I have run startups and I’ve worked with Read More...
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08:01 AM Monday, February 04, 2008
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Late last year, I spoke with Andy Plesser , founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and how they related to startups in particular. Andy and I had a follow up talk looking into the process of partnering with Microsoft, and our engagements Read More...
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12:58 PM Thursday, January 31, 2008
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In late November, I spoke to John Shinal at Vator.tv about the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program and other ways that the Emerging Business Team can help a startup partner with Microsoft. The full transcript is below, or you can watch the video right Read More...
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03:53 PM Friday, December 28, 2007
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This November I gave a keynote address at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco. Later I chatted with Andy Plesser, founder and CEO of Beet.tv, about Microsoft’s IPTV efforts and opportunities for entrepreneurs. Some highlights from my talk with Andy Read More...
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12:03 PM Monday, November 05, 2007
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In October, I was interviewed by Om Malik and Joyce Kim about my role in Silicon Valley and how Microsoft works with startups. The interview is posted on our site, www.microsoftStartupZone , and Don Dodge, on my team, blogged about it . Some highlights Read More...
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04:22 PM Friday, September 14, 2007
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On August 15, 2007, I was interviewed by Tom Foremski, publisher of Silicon Valley Watcher —Reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. The podcast and video are posted on PodTech here (11 min 45 sec.) The complete transcript is posted below Read More...
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07:45 PM Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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Talk, Debate, Collaborate — VCs Get Down to the Business of Startups Just last week, approximately 200 venture capitalists from around the world converged on our Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California to join us for the eighth annual Microsoft Read More...
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07:50 PM Monday, February 12, 2007
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Will invention and genius repeat themselves? China is a big, big market. We know it, they know it, everyone knows it. It’s an accelerating planned economy trying desperately to stay in control. I call it “controlled” capitalism, but in China it has been Read More...
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12:14 AM Thursday, November 02, 2006
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How One Thing Leads to Another One thing leads to another. Those are actually lyrics from a popular song in the '80s: “you told me something wrong, I know I listen too long, but then one thing leads to another.” For me, it sums up the magic of startups Read More...
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05:51 PM Thursday, September 21, 2006
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The Answer May Surprise You By now, everyone knows that Microsoft server technologies run at scale. Some of the world’s largest SAP implementations run on Windows and SQL Server database. But did you know that the most widely discussed Internet cultural Read More...
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10:35 AM Monday, July 31, 2006
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Courting Startups: Our Global Strategy Should we invest in startups? That was the question I posed at the beginning of this column series in October 2005. My answer then and now is the same. Yes, but not in the traditional way a venture capital firm does. Read More...
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08:45 AM Tuesday, February 07, 2006
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The Perception and Reality of Innovation Abroad I was drinking a Maccabee and snacking on olives — rather than Pinot and crostini — but it felt very much like Silicon Valley — say Il Fornaio or Buck’s. Where was I? At a café in Tel Aviv last year, marveling Read More...
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01:22 PM Wednesday, October 05, 2005
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That all depends on what “invest” means. We do invest. We don’t invest. Which is it? Believe it or not, it does depend on how you define “invest.” We don’t invest in startups in the traditional venture capital way. At least not any more. But we do aggressively Read More...
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