{"id":6441,"date":"2009-09-04T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T08:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/09\/04\/saas-made-easy-is-now-a-bizspark-partner\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:21:32","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:21:32","slug":"saas-made-easy-is-now-a-bizspark-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/saas-made-easy-is-now-a-bizspark-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"SaaS Made Easy is now a BizSpark partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year or more ago, Microsoft announced a series of &#8220;Spark&#8221; programs: BizSpark, DreamSpark, &#8230;\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/Bizspark\/Default.aspx\">BizSpark<\/a> is a program aimed at early stage startups to help provide with the resources they need (software, expertise, etc) to be successful.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.saasmadeeasy.com\/Pages\/default.aspx\">SaaS Made Easy<\/a> has been a Microsoft partner for a while now providing hosting services for Team Foundation Server (there are others as well, for example, I <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bharry\/archive\/2009\/06\/10\/trial-tfs-with-teamdevcentral.aspx\">blogged<\/a> a while ago about free hosted TFS trials by TeamDevCentral).&nbsp; SaaS Made Easy has just become a BizSpark partner and is providing inexpensive TFS hosting for all startups in the BizSpark program.\nIf you are doing a startup, it&#8217;s a great way to get started.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve done a couple of startups myself and I can remember vividly how tight money can be.&nbsp; I remember have a vigorous debate with my two partners about whether or not we needed to buy a LAN (cards, hubs, cables, etc) and whether or not we could afford buying the the memory and additional disk space to expand our offering to Windows\/NT when it was first being developed.&nbsp; Ok, I admit it, my last startup was 1992-1994 so the technology questions have changed a lot but the budget questions have not.\nI definitely recommend you take a look at BizSpark and SaaS Made Easy.\nHere&#8217;s a link to some more info on the SaaS Made Easy offer: <a title=\"http:\/\/secure.saasmadeeasy.com\/Web\/BizSpark\/Pages\/default.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/secure.saasmadeeasy.com\/Web\/BizSpark\/Pages\/default.aspx\">http:\/\/secure.saasmadeeasy.com\/Web\/BizSpark\/Pages\/default.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year or more ago, Microsoft announced a series of &#8220;Spark&#8221; programs: BizSpark, DreamSpark, &#8230; BizSpark is a program aimed at early stage startups to help provide with the resources they need (software, expertise, etc) to be successful. SaaS Made Easy has been a Microsoft partner for a while now providing hosting services for Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-6441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>A year or more ago, Microsoft announced a series of &#8220;Spark&#8221; programs: BizSpark, DreamSpark, &#8230; BizSpark is a program aimed at early stage startups to help provide with the resources they need (software, expertise, etc) to be successful. SaaS Made Easy has been a Microsoft partner for a while now providing hosting services for Team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}