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4 Things Corporates Wished Startups Knew By Nicholas Tan

Working for the past two years helping to manage the Microsoft startup programme BizSpark, I’ve definitely been stuck in meetings where I desperately wished the startup could have presented [...]

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30 Nov 2015
Startup

Microsoft Startup Partner of the Year Awards 2014 By Nicholas Tan

Clearly the coolest table at the awards ceremony The annual Microsoft Partner Awards were held on the evening of 29 October, at the grand ballroom of One Farrer Hotel & Spa – a hotel so [...]

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5 Nov 2014
Startup

How to activate free Azure credits for BizSpark By Nicholas Tan

So you’ve signed up for and gotten approved for BizSpark; the next step is to activate your Azure credits so you can start running backend stuff for your app. Here are 7 steps to activate your [...]

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4 Sep 2014
Startup

Scaling On The Cloud for Singapore Startups By Nicholas Tan

We recently sent out a survey asking BizSpark startups what they wanted to learn about Azure. The results were interesting, with most responding that they wanted to learn how to scale on the cloud. [...]

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26 Aug 2014
Startup

5 things Singapore startups and musicians have in common By Nicholas Tan

As someone who’s been fortunate enough to have a foot in two rather different worlds – the local startup ecosystem and the local music scene – I’ve found some curious [...]

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2 Jul 2014
Startup

*SCAPE’s “Meet The VCs” By Nicholas Tan

I recently got an opportunity to share what Microsoft is doing in the Singapore startup scene at *SCAPE, where HubQuarters is one of many established local co-working spaces. In general, the [...]

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16 Jun 2014
Startup

Developer Feature: Natalie Ip By Nicholas Tan

In this Developer Feature series, Spiffy talks to up-and-coming developers to learn what makes them tick. This time around, we have 26-and-a-half-year-old Natalie Ip, the CEO and founder of delivery [...]

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11 May 2014
Students

Developer Feature: Team Westeros By Nicholas Tan

In this Developer Feature series, Spiffy talks to up-and-coming developers to learn what makes them tick. For our first feature in 2014, we have 35-year-old Team Westeros, made up of computer [...]

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7 Mar 2014
Partners

Singapore foodies, rejoice! By Nicholas Tan

Image from vulcanpost.com At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia has announced that the global food delivery app foodpanda app will launch across the Nokia Asha, Lumia and X family of [...]

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5 Mar 2014
IT Pro

Windows 8.1 Deployment Jump Start on 12 March 2014 By Nicholas Tan

Do you want to deploy Windows 8.1 the “right way”? Find out how to avoid deployment pitfalls and how to streamline the process with a team of experts, including a key Developer of the [...]

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3 Mar 2014
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