January 1, 2009 17:45 by
bgauthFirst of all Happy new year, I wish you all the best!
After 3 years past in Microsoft France, I’ve decided to move to Seattle to take a new job, a new opportunity, a new challenge, a new life. Moving from a Technical Evangelist role to Digital Marketing Manager, I would say (Marketing Technopologist according to the Wall Street Journal) in a group called SBA for Startup Business Accelerator.
What is SBA? The Startup Business Accelerator is comprised of several startup businesses within Microsoft. The businesses operate like classic startups, but receive support from central engineering, marketing, finance, legal and other resources to help accelerate their growth. Upon successful market debut and customer adoption, SBA products and services will transition into one of Microsoft’s existing business divisions. Microsoft generates an amazing number of ideas for new products and services. We believe that with the application of the right people and resources, we can quickly bring new and exciting products and services to market. SBA has employed a non-traditional staffing model by creating a small central team of seasoned “experts” in key functional areas to help SBA’s development teams accelerate the product launch process in a scalable and repeatable way. Microsoft invests in innovations across a broad variety of technologies and industries. Generally speaking, SBA focuses in areas that can eventually produce large businesses. SBA teams span a variety of business opportunities – in areas adjunct to our existing businesses, and in new areas of opportunity, such as Robotics. The SBA group is currently comprised of between 100 and 200 people. The size of the group will fluctuate as SBA businesses graduate into Microsoft’s business divisions and as new projects are started.
Moving to Seattle, taking a new job, new life is part of my decision to switch this blog in English but it is also a matter to exchange with other great bloggers over the world. As my mate James said: “Now, I can read your (French) blog!” ;). It will also be a big opportunity to exchange with bloggers that I read for a while now as Mary-jo Foley, Steve Clayton…. and start a discussion :)
So what will you find here? Good question! Everything relative to my daily job, new startups, new services, Microsoft and non Microsoft, punctuated with photography, my big hobby! You can also follow my quick updates on Twitter here.
Let’s start 2009!
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