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It's amazing what's happening since 2 years on Facebook, about Italian Start up. Thanks to Stefano Bernardi, young engineer from Rome, now working in San Francisco, Italian Start up Scene Group was born. More than 8000 members- I'm around the 280 - the great majority  italian startuppers ( or wannabe..) from all over the world, not just in Italy, an incredible amount of cool topics covered.

I say " A Start up School in Social…

We met Nicholas Colella, phd, Venture capitalist at http://www.incubic.com last SVST for the first time. He gave us a speech about his view, in someway original , of building a start up. I leave you for a glance...good advices and topics...

Interested to connect to Nick...contact me.…

I agree with Prof Marco Fortis when he says" we have to make a marketing of Italy and its economy indicators that confirm we are, in many case, only second to Germany". I attach his presentation of October 9th, at Confindustria ANIMA ( Mechanical italian  industry), inspiring in this sense…

Mauro Cicolella of freedomotic.com is interested in developing a plugin for their domotic framework and in using the UFO HTTP API. They have an interesting software that support a great number of tecnologies and products for home automation.

If anyone is willing to assist Mauro with his/her UFO and possibly participate to the project, please contact me (marco@visiblenergy.com).

http://journeytocloud.com/2012/09/03/euc-demo-vmworld-mirage-vmware-view/  in August 2012, San Francisco

I strongly advice to watch Vittorio..., the best VP- actor of VMware World!

Today, October 10  at 9.am reply in Barcelona,  on streaming on VMWorld site 2012

http://steveblank.com/2012/10/08/startup-communities-regional-clusters/  

thanks to Steve for the advice!

http://www.sustainablebrands.com/news_and_views/articles/tesla-unveils-free-solar-powered-charging-model-s-owners?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=Announcement&utm_campaign=october5

A book and a CNN presentation telling this reality...to face by the next American President. http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/09/29/exp-what-in-the-world.cnn

2 videos to watch by Gigaom.

after orchestrate computers, database, storage....the future is: orchestrate the network!

thanks to Open Flow, a network standard born in Stanford...2007-2008, applied by Nicera....

Cosimo Spera made an interesting speech about Big Data one of the coolest   frontiers of Silicon Valley, in Italian Consulate , August 24th, 2012. Here you can find a lot about what's happening!

http://www.foundersfund.com/termsheet/

thanks to Stefano Bernardi!

Of the seven people leading product areas only one is a woman: Ms. Wojcicki, that is the sister-in-law of Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder.

Is that a coincidence?

What do you think about the role of women in the technology industry?…

http://www.businessinsider.com/david-sacks-silicon-valley-as-we-know-it-may-be-over-2012-8

a very interesting debate stimulated by the founder of Yammer, recently sold to Microsoft for 1+ billion

https://www.23andme.com/ 

Suppose we have a very simple action method: it takes no parameters and just returns a string:

public string MyTestMethod() {      return "Test String"; }

What if we would like to call this action method from javascript through Ajax and to display the value it returns?

We can do it with jQuery:

function AjaxDisplayString() {    $.ajax({         url: @Url.Action("MyTestMethod"),         method: 'GET',         success: function(data) { alert(data); }    });…

http://steveblank.com/2012/07/30/lying-on-your-resume/

Another american Italian that made a difference in the US

http://www.iit.edu/magazine/winter_2011/article_1.shtml#top

thanks to a link of our source of knowledge Steve Blank!

I tell you a story. On Sunday I attended to the wedding of one our Best Alumni, Andrea Vaccaro, 1st Silicon Valley Study Tour 2005. Andrea, at that time  undergrad  in electronic engineering, after the Tour strongly wished to find a  master thesys in Silicon Valley. We worked a lot with Jeff Capaccio to reach the goal, and finally we succeeded...Thanks to Alessandro Ratti, manager at LNBL , Berkeley, Andrea moved there in 2007. He found a house by a very tall , nice american engineer, Tom,…

http://steveblank.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/fairchild-silicon-valley-genealogy.jpg   Inspiring map of the Origin of Silicon valley up to the 70'ies

http://www.techweekeurope.it/opinioni/yahoo-e-wmware-vertici-che-contano-43191  

2 amazing stories.....Marissa, from Google, is pregnant...no problem for Yahoo!...this is USA....