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Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts

venturebeat.com

The Bing Fund, Microsoft’s newest incubator, to be headed by VoodooPC founder Rahul Sood. After playing coy and dropping hints for weeks, Microsoft has finally announced its newest incubator, the Bing Fund. Topics: accelerators , Bing , Bing Fund , incubators. 10 Internet comments about games that actually make us laugh.

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The Maker Movement Is A New Mecca For Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

Silicon Valley, Herzliya in Israel, Zhongguancun for software and Shenzen for hardware in China are examples of technology clusters, but so was Detroit for cars, Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion.). Respond means, Invent, Invest, Incubate, Acquire or Partner. They do this to sense and/or respond to technology shifts.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

They were mostly a B2B platform enabling game publishers to deliver via Internet streaming their traditional games built for game consoles. 16:15 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for their support of the show. 23:00 Question from the audience: Do VCs have a preference for startups that choose to work with incubators?

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere – Show No. 16: Wayne Sutton and Dave Kashen

Steve Blank

Looking to create their accelerator/incubator, Wayne and seven other founders rented a Silicon Valley house together one summer. …By creating the BUILDUP VC incubator and accelerator … we’re got into the business of providing education and access. Everybody doesn’t have hi-speed Internet.

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White Tigers in the Chains of Fear

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

I just finished reading a wonderful novel, The White Tiger, by Aravind Adiga. It’s a brisk story told in first person by a young Indian entrepreneur. I won’t say much more about the story, but it’s a good one, and deserving of the accolades and prizes its received. Perfect airplane reading, and, it has me [.].