July 2009 Blog Posts (6)

25th of August: deadline to submit business plans

The deadline to submit your business plans is fast approaching. For more information please visit our website www.mindthebridge.org.

If you have an interesting and potentially successful idea in your mind, I suggest you to “MIND THE BRIDGE” and join the competition.

I strongly believe this initiative is a great opportunity for all Italian talents. It's a unique contest, completely… Continue

Added by Gabriele Scoditti on July 31, 2009 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Grow VC, good new instrument for Web 2.0 start ups

Grow VC

Added by paolo marenco on July 15, 2009 at 2:13am — No Comments

Loan $25 to change lives through Kiva

Hi there,

I wanted to let you know about Kiva (www.kiva.org), a non-profit that allows you to lend as little as $25 to a specific low-income entrepreneur across the globe.

You choose who to lend to - whether a baker in Afghanistan, a goat herder in Uganda, a farmer in Peru, a restaurateur in Cambodia, or a tailor in Iraq - and as they repay their loan, you get your money back. It’s a powerful and sustainable way to empower someone right now to lift themselves out of… Continue

Added by Silvia Di Girolamo on July 14, 2009 at 6:28am — No Comments

Five Things Google’s Chrome OS Will Do for Your Netbook

Chrome OS, Google’s newly announced computer operating system, is coming this autumn and promises to revolutionize netbooks and other underpowered machines. Essentially, the OS is a small, fast-booting platform whose purpose is to run a browser, and from there all the Google apps and other web services you know and love. But why bother? Your netbook already has a browser and access to Google’s applications. What could Chrome do for you and your… Continue

Added by pistillo.stefano on July 10, 2009 at 12:46am — No Comments

Microsoft Unveils Full-Body Xbox Camera Controller

LOS ANGELES — A planned camera controller for Xbox 360 promises 3-D motion recognition that will turn your entire body into a game controller.

Code-named Project Natal, the camera controller will sit beneath your television set and be capable of translating every movement of your body into a game control, Microsoft said Monday as it… Continue

Added by pistillo.stefano on July 10, 2009 at 12:30am — No Comments

Idee per la Silicon Valley: suggerimenti per il Mind the Bridge business plan competition

Vi volevo segnalare questo seminario molto interessante per chi intende partecipare a Mind The Bridge.

Augusto Coppola, CEO di ERIS4, terra' un seminario dal titolo:

Idee per la Silicon Valley: suggerimenti per il Mind the Bridge

business plan competition

Il seminario si terrà Lunedì 13 Luglio 2009 dalle 17:00 alle 18:00 nell'aula N7… Continue

Added by Stefano Bernardi on July 7, 2009 at 9:38am — No Comments