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Survey of the Italian technology ecosystem

Using the often cited ecosystem analogy, I would like to provocatively ask the BAIA Link community this question: how do you see the future of technology companies in Italy?

A) A tropical ecosystem, where larger companies will emerge and a myriad of new startups feeding innovation will thrive.

B) A farmland, where "technology companies" will merely be plantation-style ou…

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Posted by Matteo Daste on June 28th, 2008 at 10:55am — No Comments

Been an Italian all my life.

Hi there,

I cannot write in Italian like most of you can which makes me very sad but I do try to read what all of you write so I can practice what I do know. Admittedly it is not much but I'm trying. Time is my worse enemy. There is not enough of it to allow me to accomplish all that I want to do each day. I'm pushing myself hard to learn those things I have forgotten. Tomorrow my wife and I will be going to the Italian American Club here in Las Vegas for dinner and a piano concert. I…

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Posted by Richard Williams on June 26th, 2008 at 7:51pm — 2 Comments

Comunicato Stampa dell’Ambasciata d'Italia a Washington sull’incontro del 21 Giugno

La Silicon Valley parla italiano

Non solo celebrazione di un motivo di orgoglio poco conosciuto, ma potenzialità di scambi a due vie è quanto emerso da un incontro dei migliori cervelli italiani della Silicon Valley e l’Ambasciatore negli USA, Gianni Castel…

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Posted by Franco Folini on June 25th, 2008 at 9:16am — 2 Comments

Upcoming social media events this year

June:

June 23
OMMA Social, New York, NY
http://www.mediapost.com/ommasocial/

June 24
Social Media Breakfast 8, Cambridge, MA
http://www.socialmediabreakfast.com/

June 25
Social Media Club LA Chapter Kick-Off Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
http://www.socialmediaclub.org/

June 25-26
Intranet 2.0 Forum, London, UK
http://www.melcrum.com/intranetforum/index.html

July:

July 10-11
Social Media Confer…

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Posted by Veronica Rosso on June 18th, 2008 at 4:52pm — 1 Comment

Silicon Valley's Companies are increasingly opening offices in SF

Today BusinessWeek published an interesting article about Silicon Valley companies opening officies in San Francisco.
The article title is "I Left My Staff in San Francisco" like the famous 1954 Tony Bennet song "I le

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Posted by Franco Folini on June 18th, 2008 at 10:08am — No Comments

Our friend Marco Palombi meets President Bush...

... and talks about the need of role models in Italy.

During his recent visit in Rome, president Bush has participated in a Roundtable on Business Exchange, where he has met Marco Palombi, co-founder of First Generation (http://1generation.net/)

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Posted by Marco Sgroi on June 13th, 2008 at 1:54pm — 4 Comments

A match made in... BAIA!

Nweb and Early Impact announced their newborn partenship at a recent NetComm 2008 event. It is with great pleasure that we watched a relationship born within the auspices of BAIA (the two founders met for the first time at a San Francisco BAIA event) develop into a c…

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Posted by Matteo Fabiano on June 2nd, 2008 at 2:45pm — No Comments

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 "smart folder" in my foldier account. foldier is an incredible system for storing and organizing all sorts of stuff. You can find the articles be…

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Posted by Massimo Arrigoni on May 30th, 2008 at 9:53am — No Comments

BAIA ITALIA event in Milano

We're happy to announce a new BAIA ITALIA event. This event will be in Milano, Italy: "E-commerce, via a nuova imprenditorialita'?" (E-commerce: a way to new entrepreneurial activity?)

It will be on June 18:00, in a really nice location called "Chiostri dell'Umanitaria", and it will focus on whether electronic commerce can be a platform for a new wave of entrepreneurial activity in Ita…

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Posted by Massimo Arrigoni on May 30th, 2008 at 9:48am — 3 Comments

New Book about the Silicon Valley (including Gina Bianchini)

There is a lot of talking those day in Silicon Valley about the new book from BusinessWeek reporter Sarah Lacys "Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good: The Rebirth of Silicon Va

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 30th, 2008 at 9:39am — No Comments

Web encounters: Italy or Germany?

While browsing the Internet I accidentally landed on a very interesting website called "Invest-In-Italy". Browsing through the pages of the website I saw a great country, full of opportunities, with great number of highly skilled professionals, and very attractive from the business point of view. The website it's not about Germany or Ireland, it's about Italy! You don't have to believe me, please check by yourself some of the data and diagrams I copied…

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 29th, 2008 at 9:40pm — 2 Comments

BAIA group on linkedin

Ciao, i noticed that many BAIA members have a profile on Linkedin, so...what about we create a BAIA group on linkedin ? dom

Posted by Domenico Tanzarella on May 24th, 2008 at 2:30pm — 8 Comments

BusinesWeek : Beyond Blogs


BusinessWeek comes back 3 years after the famous article about Blogs and Business with a new interesting articles about business and social media, called Beyond Blogs and written by Stephen Baker and Heather Green. This is perfect timing. Everybod…

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 23rd, 2008 at 6:47pm — No Comments

BAIA to present at P4G Summit in Venice

Tuesday, May 20, 2008 VEGA Park in Venice will host the P4G Summit. Orchestrated by the Partnership for Growth program, the event will rally all the key players that are working to build stronger business ties between Italy and the US through Venture Capital.
BAIA will be there w…

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Posted by Matteo Fabiano on May 19th, 2008 at 6:38am — No Comments

Girotondo Italian School: Italian Family Day

Vorrei Ricordare a Tutti Che Girotondo Italian School ha un "ITALIAN FAMILY DAY" questo Sabato dalle 10 all'una, a 1055 Las Ovejas San Rafael
Qui i Dettagli:

Girotondo Italian Preschool and Kindergarten in Marin County
Italian Family Day
Saturday, May 17 from 10 am to 1 pm - In celebration of our move to accommodate Kindergarten.
Girotondo Italian School will hold an Open House that promises to be feast for senses, for the whole family!

Guests will be treated t…

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Posted by Rosella Pusateri on May 15th, 2008 at 7:04am — No Comments

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 — 1 Comment

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 — 1 Comment

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

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:

  • Richard Boly ,US Embassy,

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Posted by Matteo Fabiano on May 8th, 2008 at 4:37pm — No Comments

Social Media Challenging Traditional Media

Universal McCann has released a report on the impact of social media on the media landscape. It surveyed 17,000 Internet users worldwide in March 2008. The report states that social media is a global phenomenon.
Did you know that China has 42m bloggers compared to the US's 26m?

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/report_social_media_challenging_traditional_media.php



Posted by Veronica Rosso on May 7th, 2008 at 10:36am — No Comments

Morgan Stanley Report: Internet Trends 2008


This is a very interesting report about the major Internet trends. It was published by Morgan Stanley on March 18, 2008. Please note that it's a PDF document over 6MB. LINK. Le…

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 5th, 2008 at 9:44am — 2 Comments

Milan as New York?

Milan is similar to New York! This is the opinion of Mark Worden a British journalist. He wrote an article about Milan published by the British magazine Italy. I found the article while browsing and I would like to share it with you.
In particular, having lived in Milan for about 10 years, I think the following sentence capture an inte…

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 4th, 2008 at 10:26pm — 2 Comments

How to Make a True Italian Pizza in San Francisco

According to Wired, San Francisco is not the best place to find a great pizza. But somebody, in the American tradition of unconditional faith in chemistry and engineering, have now found a way to make a real Italian pizza here on the San Francisco Bay! The trick is to add a few chemicals to the local water and make it like water in Naple…

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Posted by Franco Folini on May 3rd, 2008 at 7:56pm — 5 Comments

Welcome

You can find me in many blogs, mostly in Italian

http://www.lucaconti.nova100.ilsole24ore.com
http://www.pandemia.info
http://luca.wordpress.com

Posted by Luca Conti on May 3rd, 2008 at 12:58pm — 3 Comments

Managing a Company's Online Reputation (According to BusinessWeek)


BusinessWeek publishes a simple (for a few obvious) list of strategies to mange a company online profile. I recommend to take a look and post here your comments!

Here is the link!

Posted by Franco Folini on May 1st, 2008 at 8:49am — No Comments

An Unusual Road to Innovation

Innovation is about actually solving problems, figuring out how to do it, then actually doing it. Of, course, that's easier said than done.

InnoCentive has found an unusual way of doing it. They post challenges -- problems that people are looking to solve -- on their web site, and offer cash prizes for solutions. So far, Innocentive has over 140,000 registrered "solvers," people who have domain knowle…

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Posted by Franco Folini on April 30th, 2008 at 7:41pm — No Comments

Is FIAT back? According to The Economist YES!


Not everyday, but once in a while we find some positive news or opinions about Italy. This week the good news are coming from The Economist, a magazine that is always though with Italy and Italians. According to a…

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Posted by Franco Folini on April 29th, 2008 at 4:21pm — No Comments

Michele Ursino Interviewed by "Italiani Di Frontiera"

Michele Ursino, one of the founders of BAIA, has been interviewed by Roberto Bonzio, a Reuter's journalist from Italy, for the blog "Italia

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Posted by Franco Folini on April 28th, 2008 at 1:19pm — No Comments

Y-Combinator Startup School Videos

Once a year, Y-Combinator holds Startup School, its "annual free conference for hackers interested in startups." This year's videos from speakers like Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen and Peter Norvig among others are available online here:

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Posted by Matteo Fabiano on April 22nd, 2008 at 3:22pm — 1 Comment

Your Truman Show on "Repubblica"

Repubblica calls our entry in the video advertising targeting space a "logical consequence"... (article in Italian) http://www.repubblica.it/supplementi/af/2008/04/14/multimedia/029artok.html

Posted by Matteo Fabiano on April 15th, 2008 at 11:03pm — 1 Comment

Web 2.0 Expo, San Francisco, April 22-25

"The second Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco takes the pulse of the Web ecosystem and looks to its future, training a spotlight across the Web 2.0 universe to illuminate how the Internet Revolution is being created and delivered."

Web 2.0 Expo is for the builders of the next generation web: designers, developers, entrepreneurs, marketers, business strategists, and venture capitalists, people who have experie…

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Posted by Veronica Rosso on April 13th, 2008 at 4:14pm — 2 Comments

Resume (curriculum) Silicon Valley Style

Today i receive an invitation for an event in Silicon Valley (link to Upcoming) organized by the local chapter of the ACM. What impressed me was not the topic of the event, Computing in Transition, but the resume of the major speaker, Nick Tredennick, a resume pure Silicon valley semi-serious style. Enjoy and get inspired:

Nick Tredennic…

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Posted by Franco Folini on April 11th, 2008 at 5:55pm — 1 Comment

VC Tips from personal experience

During the recent Mind the Bridge 08 series of events in San Francisco, I had the pleasure to meet the great finalist companies and their representatives. It was humbling to be part of the roster of presenters with Giacomo Marini, Vittorio Viarengo and the other speakers. Here are my slides from the day. I posted my two cents on doing business in the US from an Italian perspective on Slideshare.

Posted by Matteo Fabiano on April 8th, 2008 at 2:29pm — No Comments

"La Repubblica" talks about "Mind the Bridge"

The Italian newspaper "La Repubblica" on March 29, 2008 published an article about the "Mind the Bridge" business competition, endorsed and supported by BAIA:

Sei progetti made in Italy alla prova della Silicon Valley by Paolo Pontoniere.

Posted by Franco Folini on March 29th, 2008 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Franco Folini (BAIA board) interviewed by Roberto Bonzio

On March 26, 2008 the Franco Folini, BAIA director of communication, has been interviewed by Roberto Bonzio, a Reuter journalist, for the ItalianiDiFrontiera blog.
F…

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Posted by BAIA LINK on March 28th, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

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