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OK, Digipede might no longer properly be called a startup. It’s been two years (next week) since the release of the Digipede Network, and we’ve got more customers and revenue and growth than a true startup — but we still think and act like a startup. In particular, when it comes to travel — we’re cheap.
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The Microsoft Emerging Business Team (EBT) has been a staunch supporter of Digipede for the past two years.  The EBT is run by Dan’l Lewin, sometimes referred to as Microsoft’s “Ambassador to Silicon Valley.”  As Digipede has grown from a raw startup to the leading provider of .NET Grid computing software, the EBT has provided [...]

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Don Canning describes “how a startup becomes an industry success,” providing his own take on our recent demonstration of the Digipede Network running on Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 (CCS) at the Securities Industry Association (SIA) Technology Management Conference. 
When Don says:
Microsoft as a team is working closely with Digipede Technologies to enable seamless programmatic integration [...]

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Don Dodge and Cliff Reeves of the Microsoft Emerging Business Team (EBT) continue to crank out good advice about partnering with Microsoft, especially for ISV startups – but I think it’s time for some of us ISV startup partners to weigh in, too. 
“Partnering with Microsoft” is an easy thing to say, and, superficially, an easy thing to do.  [...]

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I went yesterday to a breakfast organized by the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs, SVASE. 
For those of you outside the Bay Area, you have no idea the number of “networking opportunities” there are for startups around here.  There are literally at least a dozen organizations that organize these events on a regular basis, and [...]

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