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Farewell Notes of Departing BAIA Executive Director Giorgio Ghersi

Tonight BAIA held its 15th event at the 631 O’Farrell Street in San Francisco. The topic of the event was a little bit outside BAIA tradition, but nevertheless very interesting: Italian Education as a Business: the Rise of Italian schools...

An Interview with Gaetano Pellicano on Venture-Capital Reform in Italy

On February 19, 2008 I had the pleasure to be invited to speak at the Italian Parliament for an event on Venture Capital reform organized by Gaetano Pellicano, the President of BAIA Italy. Since the inception of BAIA Italy last...

A Call for Energetic Optimism

Today, and in the months ahead, we must think and act with keen optimism and determination. While I was traveling back home during the holidays, in my native Torino – which is also the 2008 World Design Capital – I...

A Silicon Mind

Following an extensive trip in California and other parts of the country, LA7, a major Italian television broadcaster, has produced a reportage that is now available online. A sweeping view of the opportunities, challenges and motivations of Italian entrepreneurs and...

Marco Marinucci Presents "Mind The Bridge" Initiative

The BAIA blog hosts an interview with Marco Marinucci, an Italian executive at Google and a BAIA member, who is launching an interesting initiative called Mind the Bridge, a nonprofit program to support a business plan competition for aspiring Italian...

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Videos

Me on air on the main Italian newscast

Added May 3 by Luca Conti.

Connettere le aziende con le persone

Added Apr 19 by Mauro Lupi.

BAIA panel discussion: Italian Education as a Business

Added Apr 8 by Franco Folini.

BAIA Event: BlogsAndMarketing (part 2)

Added Oct. 5, 2007 by Michele Ursino.

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TechCrunch50: Launch conference for 50 new startups
A platform where early-stage companies and products can take center stage based purely on merit. The winner will receive a $50,000 cash prize. Details here
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2008 California Clean Tech Open Launched - $600,000 in Prizes
Announced on April 2nd, the 3rd annual California Clean Tech Open is a business plan competition for early-stage clean technology startups who plan to locate their operations in California.
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BAIA co-hosts European Networking Event in Palo Alto
On May 14, 2008 within the Eurochamber network, BAIA will join the British American Business Council, the French American Chamber of Commerce, and the German American Business Association, co-hosting this event.

Forum

La Voce: An out-of-the-box forum on Italian Economy

Started by Fabiana Di Paola May 9

If you are a fan of Mr Giavazzi, you may want to check out his website La Voce. http://www.lavoce.info/ Enjoy! Read More »

Tagged: giavazzi

P4G Summit in Mestre: Who is going? 1 Reply

Started by Matteo Fabiano. Last reply by Massimo Arrigoni May 9.

P4G Parntners Summit will take place on May 20, 2008 in Venice at Vega Park. The summit is part of the Partnership for Growth program, which has the objective to foster a new ecosystem for Venture ... Read More »

Tagged: embassy, vc, venice, event, p4g

Il liberismo e la speranza

Started by Veronica Rosso May 7

Great article by Francesco Giavazzi, about Italy and economic liberalism: http://www.corriere.it/editoriali/08_a Read More »

Tagged: liberalism, politics, italy, giavazzi

Yahoo!/Microsoft failed M&A 4 Replies

Started by Matteo Daste. Last reply by Matteo Daste May 6.

Like most people here in the Bay Area, I have been following the Yahoo!/Microsoft M&A saga for a while. And, as a corporate lawyer, I am very surprised to read about these four statements by Su... Read More »

Tagged: yahoo!, valley, shareholders, microsoft, governance

Internships and professional training in California 3 Replies

Started by Veronica Rosso. Last reply by Matteo Fabiano May 8.

If you are interested in spending up to 18 months in the U.S. as an intern or trainee, here are some useful links to official sponsors designated by the U.S. Department of State to administer the J... Read More »

Tagged: internships, j1, training

Blog Posts

There's a new conversation

Ten years ago, four authors came together to start a new conversation about marketing. The result was a book called The Cluetrain Manifesto and with it Chris Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger nailed 95 theses on the door of the Internet and challenged us all to wake up to a transformation underway in how companies and people engage in markets.
After 10 years, What have companies learned? What was right and wrong? What was left out that companies should have been thinking…

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Posted by Veronica Rosso on May 13th, 2008 at 10:30am — No Comments (Add)

Malcom Gladwell Talks About Innovation and Great Ideas (The New Yorker)

Malcom Glawell is a very well know writer and thinker. He is mostly known for two popular books: The Tipping Point and…

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 11th, 2008 at 1:06pm — No Comments (Add)

The Original and First PowerPoint Presentation of the BAIA LINK Project

I would like to share with you all the original PowerPoint presentation I made for teh BAIA Event "From Leonardo to Web 2.0" at the Metreon in San Francisco on December 13, 2007.

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 10th, 2008 at 7:13pm — No Comments (Add)

The Economist's view of Italian matters

The Economist recently published a series of really interesting articles about what's happening in Italy. From Marchionne's staggering turn-around of FIAT, to Berlusconi's big come-back.

You can find the articles here >>

I added them to a "s…

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Posted by Massimo Arrigoni on May 9th, 2008 at 4:12pm — No Comments (Add)

BAIA co-hosts videoconference event with Veneto Expo

Last Friday, April 18, 2008, BAIA to co-hosted a video-conference panel in collaboration with Veneto Expo. The California panel connected with the audience at Vega Park in Venice, Italy from the WSN Pirelli/Telecom Italia Lab in Berkely. The topic of the event: "Emerging entrepreneurship and global markets in digital media". Panelists included: