Given that's your goal, here's an analysis of startup technologies that I did last week: http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-exploration-o

Given that's your goal, here's an analysis of startup technologies that I did last week: http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-exploration-of-angellist-data http://codingvc.com/which-technologies-do-startups-use-an-ex... TL;DR it seemed like few startups were using Microsoft products. That's not to say that you can't create a successful startup on the MS stack, or that MS products are not good -- just that startups are generally using other tools.