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<p class="MsoNormal">Microsoft has an international software and services grant program for tech start-ups called “BizSpark” (<a href="http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark">http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark</a>). The three-year grants provide up to ten employees
Windows, Office, servers, developer tools, web-hosting, cloud services, and additional resources through the BizSpark community. To qualify the business has to have a legitimate software development workload (can be internal or product), not be a public company,
be in business less than five years and earning less than $1M annually. Interested companies can apply via the link. The average acceptance rate is less than 50%, however I have the ability to guarantee acceptance for qualified students and faculty businesses.
Reply to me at <a href="mailto:randy.guthrie@microsoft.com">randy.guthrie@microsoft.com</a> with a brief description of your business, your intended use of the software, and the academic institution you are most recently affiliated with and I will work with
you from there. Feel free to forward this to anyone who might be potentially interested and qualified.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt">Randy Guthrie, PhD</span><br>
Microsoft Technical Evangelist<br>
Developer Experience and Evangelism [US-West]<br>
Office (Denver) 720-528-1660<br>
Mobile 303-646-7837<br>
blog: <a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory">http://blogs.msdn.com/MIS_Laboratory</a><br>
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