Today, we are excited to announce that we’re making a strategic investment in BuzzTable! BuzzTable is a suite of services catering to restaurants and guests alike. They do this by removing the friction and letting each side focus on what’s important to them. For restaurants, improving the quality of the engagement using data; for guests, finding exactly what they want, quickly, using an app. One of our favorite customer app features is...
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We are returning to San Francisco for the Women 2.0 Conference and are looking forward to meeting the hundreds of women entrepreneurs who are taking the world by storm! To do our part, we are offering support to help women-founded startups achieve liftoff. As sponsoring hosts of the conference lunch, (aside from food) we’ll be offering mentorship opportunities from subject matter experts who have insights around investment and funding...
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We believe technology is most powerful when it helps people solve problems. Search is designed to help us find relevant information that both expands our understanding of the world and helps us more quickly get things done. Similarly, social media allows us to cut through the physical limitations of keeping in touch with the people we care about by breaking down the barriers of distance and time. These solutions are simple, yet powerful. In...
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At Bing Fund, we continue to build up our portfolio of innovative start-ups tackling big challenges and creating breakthrough solutions. In August, we announced the initial set of companies fitting the profile with the announcement of Buddy and Pinion joining. Both are making amazing progress we would love to share but let’s keep that to another post. Because we have another announcement to make today. Today, Bing Fund would like to...
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We originally announced Bing Fund on July 12, 2012. It is an angel fund with an incubator program that gives startups access to Microsoft technology assets and expertise, and funding. The team has been hard at work seeking talented entrepreneurs who are innovating online to solve big problems and create new, breakthrough experiences. We’re off to a strong start with the enrollment of two amazing startups into the program. Buddy, based in Kirkland,...
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At Microsoft, we have tremendous respect for the talent, ingenuity, and passion of entrepreneurs. Where other people see merely interesting ideas, entrepreneurs see possibilities for making the world work better. Many talented people come up with game-changing ideas, but it takes an entrepreneurial spirit to stare down the words “it can’t be done” and make innovation real. Bing Fund is an angel fund with an incubator program...
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