Highlights
Easy to use. Highly intuitive. A richer experience. These are some of the key benefits of the latest release of the BizSpark portal — all designed to help accelerate your success.
First and foremost, as a Startup enrolling in the BizSpark program, you’ll experience a fast and easy online enrollment process. If you have an enrollment code, it takes just five minutes or less to sign up. If you don’t have a code, and just heard about our great program, you can easily find a Network Partner or a Microsoft Designated Country Champ to sponsor you. You need this affiliation prior to final approval as a BizSpark Startup. Once you get to that point in the enrollment process, you simply select a Network Partner in your area by country/region and state/province. That’s it. No back and forth phone calls are required, or having to wait to track down the most appropriate people to contact. We know your time is important, so we’ve made the site straightforward and easy to use. Within three days, you’ll get a response from us.
Once you are enrolled, you’ll be able to take advantage of all kinds of content and functionality right from your BizSpark home page — sign in with a Windows Live™ ID, select your preferred language interface, or connect to the MicrosoftStartupZone. As an example, you’ll see customized messages directly from your Microsoft Champ so you stay informed of any of the latest events and/or news in your region. This dynamic messaging provides you with targeted BizSpark news specifically tailored to your country. Once enrolled and approved as a BizSpark Startup, you have full access to the functionality on the BizSpark Startup Home page and subpages.
You can link to MSDN to download software, modify company and contact information, identify and select a hosting organization, update hosted totals, and add/ remove Startup members. You can also click to join our early adoption software program which gives you unlimited email support, online training and invitations to local technical events for early adopter technologies, like Windows 7, Silverlight, Azure and SQL Server 2008. Or, link to the Microsoft StartupZone website to profile your company in the BizSparkDB.
And if you are looking for content, we’ve got it. Download updated program guides, software and more. Bottom line, the portal’s new design helps you get access to the information you need, when you need it.
