Microsoft BizSpark: Helping startups succeed with all the right resources
We created BizSpark to help early-stage technology startups succeed. A global program now in over 100 countries and with 45,000+ startups, the program also allows access to a community of over 2,300 partners around the world-incubators, investors, accelerators, advisors, government agencies, mentoring groups, hosters - all involved in supporting software-fueled innovation and the next generation of technology entrepreneurs.
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Latest News
Can Angels Help Women Shatter Glass Ceilings?
Money is a key ingredient for high-growth, job-creating companies. Traditionally women have shied away from using outside funding. As a result, their businesses have grown slowly and created fewer jobs. Read More
Astia Client Eve Medical in Cover Story Bio Business
Under-represented at the executive level, women in biotech are starting their own companies and creating their own destinies. Read More
Cambridge University's Entrepreneurial Women
Over the past couple of decades, the previously male dominated business and technology sectors have started to see a change in their make-up. For more and more women, there is an awakening interest in economic matters, management, and the latest technologies. Read More
Gust Partners with Astia to Launch International Women’s Day Scholarship
Gust, an investor relations platform integrating essential collaboration tools for entrepreneurs and investors, and Astia, a global not-for-profit dedicated to the success of women-led, high-growth ventures, today announced the launch of their International Women’s Day Scholarship. The scholarship aims to help propel female entrepreneurs in startups with at least one female executive leader. Read More
About Astia and BizSpark
Astia’s partners play an essential role in the success of our programs, clients, and initiatives. Many offer complimentary services to our entrepreneurs, thereby extending our community and the value of Astia services.
Ignite your startup by joining Microsoft BizSpark, a global program designed to accelerate the success of early stage Startups. BizSpark provides fast, easy access to current full-featured Microsoft development tools and production licenses of server products; professional technical support from Microsoft; and connections to a global community of business experts who can help guide you through the hurdles of growing your business.
Sign up for BizSpark today.
Message from Astia CEO, Sharon Vosmek
Lately, I have had the good fortune to talk to entrepreneurs in a large stage format. At Astia, we seldom gather large groups, focusing our efforts instead on creating more intimate settings where critical business relationships can develop. I confess to being a bit enamored by the energy of a room filled to the brim with entrepreneurs - or entrepreneurs in the making.
One such setting was Senator Tester's 10th Business Opportunity Workshop in Missoula, Montana where I spoke on behalf of Karen Mills, the head of the US Small Business Administration. My comments to the audience of entrepreneurs were direct: the opportunity is yours for the taking. Put your stake in the ground and go for it. Our economic recovery rests on it.
This past year at Astia, we have chosen this very strategy and put a clear stake in the ground of our own- a view that endeavors to increase our impact and mainstream our message to the broader business community. This will be the first in a three-part series that outlines for you the exciting changes afoot at Astia.
The bottom line: increasing impact and mainstreaming the message.
So stay tuned….. more to come!
