Ask HN: Anyone have comments on Microsoft's BizSpark?

Re:Ask HN: Anyone have comments on Microsoft's BizSpark? by larsberg on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @12:26PM (#2864600)

What are your questions about it? I know two startups friends did that used it (one I was a part of), and the program is exactly as advertised. All the software+licenses, free for use until you either pass the 3 year (IIRC) mark or several million in revenue. It also now comes with some free Azure time.

If you can stand the HN karma deduction of using the MSFT platform, it's a pretty fantastic deal. Oh, and the program administrators are less picky with how "real" you are than, say, becoming a registered iOS developer (having gone through both processes myself).

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone have comments on Microsoft's BizSpark? by bavcyc on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @12:46PM (#2864683)

Thanks. I do not have specific questions at this time, it just seemed too good to be true.

If I was building a web application then I would avoid MSFT but using MSFT hardware is much easier than developing my own or hacking stuff to work with MSFT hardware.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone have comments on Microsoft's BizSpark? by PonyGumbo on Wednesday August 10, 2011 @08:33AM (#2867881)

Same here. No objections. DreamSpark is also fantastic for students.

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