-Enterprise Incubator Foundation, Microsoft launch BizSpark

PanARMENIAN.Net - "In world crisis circumstances there's a growing demand for information technologies, allowing to increase job effectiveness and lower expenditures in any sphere, including the inner market of Armenia. Microsoft and Enterprise Incubator Fund have launched BizSpark joint project aiming to serve startup organizations' needs," Microsoft Armenian Representation Director Grigor Barsegyan stated.





BizSpark is an innovative new program that unites Startups with entrepreneurial and technology resources in a global community with a common goal of supporting and accelerating the success of a new generation of high-potential Startups.



According to him, BizSpark is uniquely designed to prove fast, affordable access to current, full-featured Microsoft tools and technologies, plus production licensing for hosted solutions. For support, BizSpark unites a global community of technology and entrepreneurial experts who can guide the organization through the hurdles of growing a new business at no cost to the organization.





To be eligible for BizSpark, all of the following must be true. The Startup should be: in the business of software development, privately held; in business for less than 3 years, and have less than $500 000 in annual revenue.

The first counties to implement BizSpark projects were Great Britain, Germany, Russia and Southern Europe. Currently more than 60 countries around world are using BizSpark.