Comments on: James Caan, Richard Moross and Jerome Touze to speak at Microsoft’s UK BizSpark Summit http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/09/03/james-caan-richard-moross-and-jerome-touze-to-speak-at-microsofts-uk-bizspark-summit/ Tracking European web and mobile start-ups Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:18:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Daniel Tenner http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/09/03/james-caan-richard-moross-and-jerome-touze-to-speak-at-microsofts-uk-bizspark-summit/comment-page-1/#comment-259144 Daniel Tenner Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:16:33 +0000 http://uk.techcrunch.com/?p=9911#comment-259144 "If you’re a young tech start-up, you need a pretty good excuse not to be enrolled in Microsoft’s BizSpark (@BizSpark) program, which offers support and services to emerging technology companies. " I'm not convinced about that. A great many start-ups use Linux-based technologies for their deployment platforms, and a large percentage of developers (particularly in the Rails space) use Macs. I'm not quite sure what would be the justification for joining BizSpark then. Perhaps correct your sentence to: "If you're a young start-up using Microsoft technologies, you need..." “If you’re a young tech start-up, you need a pretty good excuse not to be enrolled in Microsoft’s BizSpark (@BizSpark) program, which offers support and services to emerging technology companies. ”

I’m not convinced about that. A great many start-ups use Linux-based technologies for their deployment platforms, and a large percentage of developers (particularly in the Rails space) use Macs. I’m not quite sure what would be the justification for joining BizSpark then.

Perhaps correct your sentence to: “If you’re a young start-up using Microsoft technologies, you need…”

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