Microsoft and Dogpatch Labs form partnership to foster entrepreneurship & innovation

Microsoft and Dogpatch Labs have formed a partnership to foster entrepreneurship & innovation by supporting early-stage startups with facilitated access to Microsoft product personnel, programs & services, including the Microsoft BizSpark program.

The partnership will also feature Microsoft and Dogpatch collaboration around workshops, meet-ups and other activities which extend entrepreneur access and visibility into Microsoft product organizations & executives. Originally founded in late 2008 on San Francisco’s Pier 38 and expanded last year to Cambridge, MA’s Kendall Square and New York City’s Union Square,

Dogpatch Labs has fostered the creation of a virtual community of entrepreneurs not just by providing physical work space, but more importantly, a vibrant environment with which to collaborate, share ideas, network and impart best practices with each other.

A fundamental component of this partnership includes providing Dogpatch facilitated access to Microsoft product personnel, programs & services, including Microsoft BizSpark program reach across the virtual community clustered around the three Labs locations (Silicon Valley, New York and Cambridge). The partnership will also feature Microsoft and Dogpatch collaboration around workshops, meet-ups and other activities which extend entrepreneur access and visibility into Microsoft product organizations and with our executive