Microsoft Bizspark, the community program of Microsoft Ventures, provides entrepreneurs with access to free software development tools (including Dev tools, Office, Windows and SQL), training, and visibility at no cost. Microsoft Ventures is a global initiative to help entrepreneurs build great companies. Working with startups at every stage of maturity, they provide the tools, resources, and expertise they need to succeed.
What is the Founder Institute?
The Founder Institute is the world’s most challenging step-by-step program to start an impactful and enduring company. If you have the talent and and motivation, our curriculum will give you the structure, mentor support, and global network of entrepreneurs you need to be successful. Many leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used our program to transition from employee to entrepreneur, test their startup ideas, build a team, get their first customers, raise funding, building a co-founding team, and more.
"The Founder Institute is a radically new idea in itself. This is entrepreneurship at a tremendous scale."
"The program was like drinking from a fire hose. The experience was invaluable and connected me to a network of brilliant advisers and mentors that taught me what I needed to know."