Microsoft Shows Startups Some Love

Don Dodge quotes Me.dium VP David Mandell talking about Microsoft's Startup Accelerator program:

We would never have imagined that a company as large as Microsoft would have the desire to focus on a small startup such as Me.dium, but we were completely blown away by the attention and access to people that we were given and owe much or our current success to that relationship.

If Me.dium or any of the startups in this program finds a valuable niche, Microsoft will have three choices: stay out of their space, buy them, or kill them. It will be interesting, and telling, to see what happens.