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Will some of us be listed here in a couple of years?

I hope so! An article about ten innovative startups. http://www.technologyreview.com/Biztech/20923/page1/ Continue

Posted by Corrado Alesso on July 2, 2008 at 11:08am — No Comments

Microsoft's Plan B for Search

Moving past the Yahoo saga, the software giant is buying semantic search engine Powerset as a way of closing the gap with Google. Still smarting from a failed attempt to buy Yahoo!, Microsoft is trying another tactic to gain on Google in Web search. Microsoft is buying… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on July 2, 2008 at 4:30am — No Comments

You Tube goes long-form

There has been a lot of talk over the past few weeks about the problems Google are experiencing in trying to make the 82 million viewers a month help pay back the $1.65 billion investment. Things have got so bad that we asked whether Google should just cut its losses an… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on June 19, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

Funambol Series B Financing : $ 12.5 Million

Funambol, the company providing open source push email, contacts and calendar, raised $ 12.5 million in a second round of investment led by Nexti Ventures. You can read…

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on June 17, 2008 at 3:47am — No Comments

Will Microsoft Search use Mahalo techniques to change the game?

Here Brad Goldberg,… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on June 15, 2008 at 8:00pm — 2 Comments

The Heart of Silicon Valley - Fortune's Article on Stanford University

In this article, Fortune's journalist James Aley, writes about the (pivotal) role on Stanford University in Silicon Valley. A lot has been written about Stanford as a source of great talen…

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on June 15, 2008 at 12:31pm — No Comments

Yahoo makes ad deal with Google, spurns Microsoft!

Yahoo announced Thursday afternoon it had turned down an offer from Microsoft to buy its search business and heralded a 10-year advertising partnership with Google, ending a high-stakes takeover saga that has stretched more than four months. "Clearly, it's time to… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on June 13, 2008 at 1:30am — No Comments

Web 2.0 and Ourselves

The previous post by Jacop "The Truth According to Wikipedia", has been a great start to stimulate the conversation about the Web's impact on our society. The main points can be summed up in a couple of questions: is the Web2.0 good or bad? What all this Web2.0 websites… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on June 11, 2008 at 1:38pm — 1 Comment

47 Members of this Network currently in USA

47 Members of this Network are currently in USA , working or studying.

The first Members in USA of our Network, in order of application, are Andrea Vaccaro and Claudio Capuzzo. Andrea and Claudio are 2 success stories of our 1st Silicon Valley Study…

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Posted by paolo marenco on June 11, 2008 at 5:00am — 2 Comments

The Truth According To Wikipedia

Digital utopians have heralded the dawn of an era in which Web 2.0 — distinguished by a new generation of participatory sites like MySpace, Wikipedia and YouTube, which emphasize user-generated content, social networking and interactive sharing — ushers in the democratizatio… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on June 6, 2008 at 5:30am — 7 Comments

HP Business Technology Showroom - Briefings

Technology Briefing – Seminari tecnologici con sessioni dimostrative Il Business Technology Showroom è un’area che HP ha attrezzato presso la propria sede di Cernusco sul Naviglio (MI) per fornire dimostrazioni delle soluzioni di business innovative, orizzontali e verticali e dove è… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on June 5, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

The World is flat

I would propose a fantastic good, that I read last summer. The book has help me to open my mind in the globalised world.

The author is Thomas Friedman, he narrates his journey in Bangalore. This town is the "new Silicon Valley", but it isn't in USA or in Europe, it's in India. The author says "the world is flat" in the sense that globalization has leveled the competitive playing fie… Continue

Posted by Roberto_Romanato on June 4, 2008 at 12:43pm — 4 Comments

Cisco Holographic TelePresence

Cisco's engineers seem to be pretty inspired by Sci-Fi movie special effects. But one thing is making them in a George Lucas movie post-production, another is really create them and make them work. Cisco developed the first Live Holographic Telepresence and it's amazing. You can see… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on May 31, 2008 at 3:14am — 1 Comment

STARTUP SCHOOL

Where: Kresge Auditorium, Stanford University. When: 19 April 2008, 9:00 am. http://omnisio.com/startupschool08 Startup school is an annual free conference for hackers interested in startups. This was the fourth year we've done it. There will be another in 2009. Continue

Posted by pistillo.stefano on May 30, 2008 at 6:30am — 2 Comments

Capturing Creativity

June 4, 3-4 pm join http://italy.usembassy.gov/Face2Face/cc LUIGI ORSI CARBONE on-line interviews: DAVIDE MARRONE Founder of Skebby Mobile Solutions topic: Microcompany development After the video webchat, comments on the blog: http://capturingcreativity.splinder.com/ Continue

Posted by paolo marenco on May 28, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Google or Microsoft: Yahoo Should Pick Both!

Financial markets are abuzz with the possibility of a Microsoft-Yahoo merger or a Google-Yahoo to block it. But now Yahoo might well be able to have its Google cake and eat Microsoft’s market share, too. Faced with the prospect that Yahoo might give some of its search advertisi… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on May 28, 2008 at 8:30am — No Comments

TURIN Software Meeting

The event is organised by Unione Industriale di Torino (Employers' Association) and will be a chance to explore new technology trends in ICT sector, focusing on data sharing and methodologies. In Torino, at Lingotto Congress Center. 4th & 5th June 2008 Lingotto Co… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on May 27, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

Open: Business Model for Innovation

Henry Chesbrough, Adjunt Professor at Haas Business School of Berkeley, is Executive Director of Center for Open Innovation, University of California, Berkeley. He wrote two books to explain the great change ongoing in the world, passing from closed to open innovation. Here you can… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on May 24, 2008 at 3:15am — 10 Comments

Rumor: Microsoft to Buy Yahoo! Search and then Facebook.

Maybe a Microhoo logo will not be enough soon. According to some sources… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on May 19, 2008 at 7:13am — No Comments

StartCup Milano '08 - Deadline 30th May 2008

If you think you have a great idea and you have already wrote a business plan, but you need some resources to start, don't miss the deadline (30th May 2008) to send you bp to the StartCup Milano Lombardia 2008. Here is the of… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on May 18, 2008 at 1:32pm — No Comments

SMAU 2007 special report "ICT channels in Italy: suppliers become partners"

Smau 2007 special report "Partners4ICT - ICT channels in Italy: suppliers become partners" "ICT channels in Italy: suppliers become partners", a publication promoted by the School of Management of Politecnico di Milano and Smau, is a new qualified tool offering valuable informati… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on May 6, 2008 at 9:00am — 1 Comment

SMAU EVENTS 2008

Smau 2008: a series of Local Events in major Italian cities are being launched Smau is launching a series of local events in major Italian cities, a project which is met with approval from the main ICT players. Autodesk, BlackBerry, Epson, IBM, Infor, Microsoft, Oracle… Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on May 6, 2008 at 8:00am — No Comments

Ning CEO Gina Bianchini Featured on FastCompany

FastCompany is featuring Ning CEO Gina Bianchini on its May issue. You can read the whole article about Ning here. I… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on April 25, 2008 at 2:00am — 3 Comments

IL VIAGGIO VERSO LA VALLE DELL'INNOVAZIONE - PRIMA TAPPA

INIZIA IL VIAGGIO! Il giorno 17 aprile 2008 si è svolta la prima delle quattro conferenze presso l’Università del Piemonte Orientale nella Facoltà di Economia di Novara che ha ospitato la signora Tere Cerutti, presidentessa da 40 anni dell’affermata società italiana Cerutti s.p.a., un’azienda leader mondiale nel settore della costruzione di macchine da stampa e quotidiani. Tere Cerutti, una donna con un grande carisma, ha saputo, grazie al suo spiccato senso intuitivo e forza d’animo, proseguire… Continue

Posted by Andrea Ugolini on April 22, 2008 at 2:27am — No Comments

Luciano Lazzeri Presentation Now Available

Last Monday, April 7th, a great conference by Luciano Lazzeri was held at the Genova University. Mr. Lazzeri was for Director at Ansaldo Group. His slideshow on the renewable energy's engineering development is pivotal considering the growing importance and urgence of the environmental issue. You can now download his presentation, attached hereby.… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on April 11, 2008 at 2:07am — No Comments

Italian start-ups road show: -1 day!

It's getting hot in San Francisco. Even more for our 5 start-ups, finalists of the Mind the Bridge Business Plan competition. Tomorrow, their long-awaited week long road show in the Silicon Valley will officially start. Their agenda will be quite full. We'll start off with a whole day of introductory presentations, on topics of general interest: - how to open a US branch - how to cope with legal/admin/immigration issues - what the Silicon Valley VCs exp… Continue

Posted by marco marinucci on March 30, 2008 at 10:03am — 4 Comments

Fhoster on 01.net - An Interview with Antonio Leonforte

Antonio Leonforte is founder and CEO at Fhoster a young start-up working on enterprise software for small and medium companies. Antonio is a member of our network and you check out his profile… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on March 27, 2008 at 1:38am — No Comments

ABB Giulio Capocaccia's Presentation

It's now online the presentation held by Giulio Capocaccia on Monday 17th at the Genova University. You can check it directly here...

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on March 20, 2008 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Silicon Valley Debate: Workaholics vs. Non-Workaholics

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jason Calacanis had posted a few days ago about how to keep your start-up productive… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on March 12, 2008 at 1:50am — 1 Comment

Java IDE Day... It was GREAT!!!

Far beyond our expectations, the JID that took place yesterday in our beloved B1 has been a great event! When we started thinging about this meeting, we hoped to bring at most 50-60 people... well, fortunately we rent B1 so that all the 130 java developers (and not!) that attended could find a place to sit! This is a big number, for a lot of reasons... As JUG, this is our experience in organizing an event of such dimension: we are used to do JUG meetings with 20 people, with small advertising on… Continue

Posted by Corrado Alesso on March 11, 2008 at 2:27am — 1 Comment

IBM and Porto Media: partnership for "easy movie"!

Luisa Bozano, researcher on nanofabrication at IBM -Almaden Research Center, Silicon Valley, our Member n.100 will be in Italy for two conferences mid may , in Padova University and Torino Politecnico.....but there is another good news regarding IBM...look at this video, the parnership between the Big Blue and a small Irish company… Continue

Posted by paolo marenco on March 9, 2008 at 4:30am — 3 Comments

Richard Boly for President

I was reading Fabrizio Capobianco's blog when I found this interview to Richard Boly. He's been doing a lot for italian entrepreneurship, toghether with the US Ambassador Ronald Spogli... and they're not even Italians! In the last years he's been working full time on the Partnership For Growth program. So Fabrizio ironically proposed to ask him to run for the upcoming it… Continue

Posted by Andrea Vaccaro on March 7, 2008 at 12:00am — 1 Comment

Montalbano Technology-RFID conference Genova University- March 3rd 5pm

lunedì 3 marzo 2008 alle 17 Aula Magna Magna B1 della Facoltà di Ingegneria, Via All'Opera Pia 15 a, Genova per il 5° ciclo di conferenze La Storia nel Futuro. Relatore: Giuseppe Oriana Presidente - MT Montalbano Technology "RFID: il controllo in radiofrequenza, tecnologia guida per applicazioni in diverse aree di business" from: http://www.montalbanotechnology.com/ 14th of February 2007, Intesa Sanpaolo signed a contract of investment in MT stock The first Italian Bank will invest € 1.5 mi… Continue

Posted by paolo marenco on February 28, 2008 at 7:42am — 1 Comment

INNOVATION FORUM 2008

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Posted by Jacob Gliklich on February 28, 2008 at 6:51am — No Comments

INNOVATION FORUM 2008 MILAN March 12 - 15

Innovation Forum 2008, Orizzonte 2015 Terza edizione della fiera ICT dedicata all'innovazione IDC Italia ha organizzato per il 12 e 15 marzo, a Milano, Innovation Forum 2008 «Orizzonte 2015». Per ogni ulteriore informazione consultare il sito www.idc.com/italy Continue

Posted by Jacob Gliklich on February 28, 2008 at 6:48am — 1 Comment

International Career Fair

Ciao, un po' tardi ma voglio richiamare la vostra attenzione su un evento che si svolgera' a San Francisco. Putroppo mi sono ricordato troppo tardi. Comunque e' un evento che si tiene ogni anno verso la fine di Febbraio. Il website e': http://www.internationalcareerfair.com/jsp/core/PlageHome.jsp Dal website: On February 29 and March 1, 2008, the International Career Fair will bring together graduate students from the top engineering, scientific and business universities, as well as seasoned pr… Continue

Posted by Carlo Tedesco on February 26, 2008 at 7:00pm — 1 Comment

Khamsa looks for a brand: try and win a Mac Book Pro!

Hi all, Khamsa works in information security and technological innovation field. We are seeking a brand for a new hi-tech line of products. The company will reward the most appealing name with a Mac Book Pro. We are pleased to have your contribute. The link to suggest the brand is www.win-a-mac.com. The published deadline is February 29th, but we are extending it till March 7th for the last proposals. Regards, Federico Moro Fabio Pietrosanti Continue

Posted by paolo marenco on February 22, 2008 at 10:00am — No Comments

Get ready for the first italian Java IDE Day!

Java IDEs come to Italy! After the success of last year IDE shootout organized by JUG Cologne, another event raises the buzz about the latest innovations in Java IDEs, this time in Italy. Jointly organized by JUG Genova and JUG Rome, the Java IDE Day (http://www.ideday.org) wil… Continue

Posted by Corrado Alesso on February 22, 2008 at 6:00am — No Comments

Internships at Digital Keystone

About Digital Keystone: Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, Digital Keystone Inc. is the leader in secure media bridging software and system solutions, enabling the distribution of digital Pay TV content into the digital home according to Digital Rights Management (DRM) rules. Digital Keystone has products shipping today in the US for Cable, ongoing programs covering both the US and the European Digital Broadcast markets and developed key partnerships with tier-one industry leade… Continue

Posted by paolo marenco on February 20, 2008 at 1:17pm — No Comments

Internships at HP Labs

Hello I want to inform the interested students that HP Labs will soon start accepting appplications for the interships at HP Labs, mainly in Palo Alto and Bristol (but I saw positions in Beijing, China). They will be published at a www.hpl.hp.com/jobs under the link "internships". Please inform your friends who could be interested Ciao Carlo Continue

Posted by Carlo Tedesco on February 20, 2008 at 11:09am — 1 Comment

Vittorio Viarengo- Agorà della Cittadella Politecnica, Torino, h.17.00

I would like to start this post with a personal note: we met Vittorio Viarengo just before the Labour Day this summer in Redwood at the Oracle' s Headquarter. No doubt he made one of the most interesting lesson (not just a simple presentation) I have ever attended. After selling his own startup ViVi Software during the 80's Vittorio Viarengo went to the USA, first at Object design and then at BEA System , San Josè. Since 2004 he works for Oracle, ad Vice President Software Middleware Telecoms an… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on February 14, 2008 at 5:00am — 3 Comments

Sun sponsors OS community innovation... and this time Italy is IN!!

Sun is going to contribute to Open Source with an effort of 1 million dollars shared by six OS communities such as OpenSolaris, NetBeans, OpenOffice. The awards will be given to the most interesting and innovating initiatives among those communities. Each community has its own terms and conditions, so check carefully... and since this is not a contest but a grant, this time Italy can participate! :D

More info on http://ww… Continue

Posted by Corrado Alesso on February 6, 2008 at 2:08pm — 1 Comment

Google on Microsoft + Yahoo!

I was looking for something interesting to post on the Microsoft- Yahoo! deal, and especially waiting to hear something from Google. Now, here it is from the official Google Blog:

"The openness of the Internet is what made Google -- and Yahoo! -- possible. A good idea that users find useful spreads quickly. Businesses can be created around the idea. Users benefit from constant innovation. It's wha… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on February 4, 2008 at 12:13am — No Comments

Video: The Secret History of Silicon Valley

Silicon Valley's legend Steve Blank recently spoke at Google as part of their TechTalks. In this video he traces a very entertaining history of the Silicon Valley. It's almost 1 hour long, but it' worth seeing.

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on January 30, 2008 at 12:10am — 3 Comments

Ciao!

Questo è il mio primo post in questo fantastico Network.
Saluto tutti!
Ci vediamo in California!
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Posted by Silvio on January 29, 2008 at 3:31am — No Comments

Google to Improve User Experience: New Search Results Interface

Google is experimenting new interfaces for its search results. The current view with ten results vertically displayed in a list is indeed quite old. Google adds three new features: Map view, Timeline view and Info view. This will improve the user experience making it easier and faster to find relevant informations.
Th… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on January 29, 2008 at 1:42am — No Comments

Start Up in the Silicon Valley: an Italian Experience. Cosimo Spera at Politecnico Milano, 22nd January 2008

Cosimo Spera: January 22nd 2008 at 17.30 ,Campus Gran Sasso, Via Garofalo 39- stair D, 4th floor room 4.1

Cosimo Spera is a member of SVIEC – Silicon Valley Italian Executive Council founded by the lawyer Jeff Capaccio – an organization counting more than 400 participants. Spera is going to talk about his experience as an entrepreneur at the heart of American technology. As a matter of fact, Silicon Valley can still be referred… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on January 15, 2008 at 5:41am — 1 Comment

Marco Marinucci on Mind the Bridge

Marco Marinucci, founder of the Mind the Bridge initiative, share with us some considerations on the first edition.

"It's been a thrilling evening.
In front of a full room filled with over 250 people (probably the busiest SVIEC event I have been to) who included the Ambassador Spogli and a delegation of 55 senior Italian executives, in the Silicon Valley for a 2dd tour organized by the US embassy.
Here below, I share with you a short version of the speech I gave f… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on January 13, 2008 at 2:40am — 1 Comment

More than 30 Italian start up's present in this Social Network

Our Social Network sees the growing interest of Italian start up's operating in different sectors ( IT, Biotech, Cleantech). More than 30 , among founders and managers , are the Members representing today Italian start up's. The network could benefit from these Members from many points of view

1 to create contacts between them and the Members in USA ( either VC's and Start up's, one case of possible cooperation already in work)

2 to promote Forum to transfer best practices, rule…

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Posted by paolo marenco on January 11, 2008 at 8:08am — No Comments

Mind The Bridge Finalists 2007

Here is the list of the first edition of Mind The Bridge:

VivaBioCell (biotech, tissue engineering)
Econoetica (multimedia for tourism)
Nano4Bio (bio sensors, cell cultivation)
Blucape (mobile wireless)

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on January 11, 2008 at 12:43am — 4 Comments

Quick Thoughts after Reviewing some Business Plans

Hi,

I just finished reviewing my shares of the business plans that were submitted to the 'Mind the Bridge' initiative and I thought I would share some comments.
It was definitely great to see all these ideas coming from Italian entrepreneurs.

If I could give a couple of suggestions to our enthusiastic submitters I would say:

1 - spend a little more time looking at the market and existing products in the… Continue

Posted by Vittorio Viarengo on January 7, 2008 at 11:36am — 1 Comment

Silicon Mind: watch it here

Here you can see the documentary aired yesterday night on La7. Read the previous post

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on January 7, 2008 at 11:24am — No Comments

Italian Reportage on the Silicon Valley. January 6th- La7, h. 23:30

On Sunday January 6th, Italian channel La7 will air at 23:30 a reportage about the Silicon Valley and the venture capital world. If you are not able to see it on Sunday, it will be streamed starting from Monday at http://www.la7.it/approfondimento/dettaglio.asp?prop=reality .

Among the other companies they will speak about Aurora Biofuels, one of the company we visited during the Silicon Valley Study Tour '07, and whose… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on January 4, 2008 at 12:30am — No Comments

MIND THE BRIDGE SUCCESS !

more than 40 Business plans applied to Mind The Bridge. "Good quality" said Marco Marinucci, the inventor of the Challenge. Now the evaluation process starts. Marco will announce the winners during SVIEC Reception in Atherton- Silicon Valley, January 10th, 2008 with US Ambassador Ronald Spogli. Continue

Posted by paolo marenco on December 23, 2007 at 9:40am — 1 Comment

What Europeans can learn from the Silicon Valley

During our tour in the Silicon Valley, we've been told many time that what make the Valley such a successfull place is an ecosystems composed by many different factors. Indeed, in the past many Countries tried to create their own version of the Silicon Valley, often misunderstanding the key ingredients. Even if accor…

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on December 20, 2007 at 10:46pm — No Comments

Here is the great presentation by Vincenzo Giori, Ceo of Siemens Italia, held in Genoa University, Dec. 10th 2007

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Posted by Nicolò Borghi on December 19, 2007 at 11:15am — No Comments

Send your business plan, NOW

This is your chance to send your business plan and, if you win, have an successful entrepreneur mentoring for 3 months. Google executive and member our network, Marco Marinucci (picture), is the founder of this wonderful opportunity.
Read here his words:

Hi all,
as you might have heard, the first edition of the… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on December 14, 2007 at 1:08am — No Comments

Join the NòvaLab Project

NòvaLab is a new website, now still in beta, by Nòva il Sole 24 Ore and it's giving the opportunity to the Silicon Valley Study Tour members to take part in the project. Here is how it works: the owner of the page at NòvaLab starts a discussion inviting via e-mail external partecipants. Everyone can then register and become "author" addin… Continue

Posted by Nicolò Borghi on December 4, 2007 at 4:38am — No Comments