Training

Business and Technical Training for Startups

Gain business and technical training through free online content featured here. Below is a selection of business and technically-focused trainings covering a range of topics. View more online courses at www.msdev.com/bizspark.

Business Training

“Venture Debt: Term Sheet Review” in partnership with Orrick Total Access

12 Direct Marketing Campaigns Up Close

Becoming Best In Class

Best Practices for Retaining Your Best Employees

Best Practices for Supporting & Managing Your Partners

Best Practices in Building a Pipeline of Channel Partner Prospects

Best Practices in Building a Successful Channel Development Business Plan

Best Practices in Growing Your Business through Channels

Bridging the Gap Between Sales & Marketing

Business strategies for generating more leads and sales for a profitable year end

Channel Development: What Every VAR Wants from their ISV

Cleantech: Innovation and the Fundraising & Investment Landscape

Episode 1 - What Is Windows Azure and Why Is It In the Cloud?

Episode 2 - The Windows Azure Development Experience

Episode 3 - Moving Existing Applications to Windows Azure

Episode 6 - Sign Up

Financial Tips for Start Ups Seeking Venture Funding

Finding and Recruiting the Most Effective Human Resources

How Much Should You Spend on Marketing?

How Smart Marketers Craft Compelling Offers

How to Build a Winning Brand

How to Earn More from Existing Customers

How to Generate High-Quality Referrals

How to use live and web events to drive your business

How to Write Copy that Works

Launching your Business

Lead Generation, Qualification and Tracking

Marketing your Business

Maximizing Revenue by Growing Customer Share

Panel #1: Private Financing

Panel #2: Project and Tax Equity Financing of Renewable Energy Projects

Panel #3: Accessing Government Funds and Other Government Assistance

Perspectives on building a successful startup

Powerful Techniques for Trade Show Marketing

Solving for Commerce Complexity

Startup 101 Part 2: Money and Your MicroISV

Startup 101 Part 4: Blogging and your Social Network

The Mechanics of Profit and Loss for Solution Providers

Virtual Goods: What Do Consumers Crave?

Web 1.0 Marketing: How to Make Your Landing Pages Hit, Not Miss

Web 2.0 Marketing: What's Real and What's Hype in the Social Media

Windows Azure Overview

Technical Training

MySQL / SQL Server 2008: Web Seminar Series Part 1: Products Overview and Comparison

MySQL / SQL Server 2008: Web Seminar Series Part 2: Security and Business Intelligence

MySQL / SQL Server 2008: Live Web Seminar Series Part 3: Scalability

PHP on Windows: LAMP to WISP Process

PHP on Windows

PHP on Windows: PHP to ASP.NET

PHP on Windows: AMP on Windows

PHP on Windows: Introducing PHP on IIS

PHP on Windows: MySQL to SQL Server

PHP on Windows: Using Microsoft Web Platform

PHP on Windows: Creating an ASP.NET Application

SQL Server 2008: Overview of Microsoft's BI platform and how to solve problems

SQL Server 2008: Building your ISV Operational applications

SQL Server 2008: Building your ISV Tactical applications

SQL Server 2008: Building your ISV Strategic application

SQL Server 2008: Building your ISV Corporate Performance Management application

Microsoft SharePoint 2010: Solution Deployment

Silverlight: The ISV Developer Community Presents: Composite Rich Internet Applications

Silverlight and SharePoint: Rich Internet Applications

Microsoft Silverlight: Deep Zoom

Aprimo: Using Silverlight in the Real World

Dev 10 Training: Silverlight 4 Overview

Windows Azure: How Do I deploy a Windows Azure Application?

Windows Azure: How To Guide: Getting Started Developing on Windows Azure

Windows Azure: How To Guide: Storing Blobs in Windows Azure Storage

Windows Azure: How To Guide: Leveraging Queues in Windows Azure

Windows Azure: How To Guide: Debugging Tips for Windows Azure Applications

Windows Azure: How To Guide: Storing Data in Windows Azure Tables

Host a Simple Website on the Windows Azure Platform

Windows Azure Fundamentals

Developing a Windows Azure Application

Windows Phone 7 in 7: The Windows Phone 7 Application Architecture

Windows Phone 7 in 7: Silverlight and Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 in 7: XNA and Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 in 7: Introducing Windows Phone 7

Windows Phone 7 in 7: Getting Started with Windows Phone 7

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