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Format: 2013-05-22
Format: 2013-05-22

What the Italian Startup Scene Looks Like: Italian Startups Are World Class

In my inaugural column I wrote that I saw world-class startups with world-class ideas in Italy. Let me use this second (and subsequent) column(s) to dig more deeply, then, into Italy’s startup scene. For those of you with short ...

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James C. Roberts III

Italian Translation: Fire, Razors & Customer CAC for Startups

Il Fuoco Kindle: una breve discussione di CAC. (Below is a "machine translation" into Italian of a post I wrote on Customer Acquisition Costs.  The English version can be found here.)

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James C. Roberts III

Fire, Razors & CAC for Startups

The Kindle Fire: A Short Discussion of CAC. (N.B., an Italian translation--via Google Translate--can be found at this link.) What does the Kindle Fire have to do with startups? They are losing money every time they sell one (and they are selling ...

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James C. Roberts III

Startup Showcase: Risparmio Super

Barbara Labate, co-founder of Risparmio Super, answered some questions for me, below.  She was very kind to answer some in English and some in Italian.  This is one of the showcase interviews with Italian startups, the first being ...

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James C. Roberts III

Venture Showcase: Joe Petillon & Banner Ventures

Joe Petillon, of Banner Ventures, answered questions I posed to him (via email) about venture capital and the Italian situation.  Joe raises some very interesting points and puts it in the context of emerging trends in Italy.  (As usual ...

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James C. Roberts III
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Londra, la parola magica è start up: va bene il reality e per il master

Sei mesi di teoria, sei di pratica: un anno per capire come sostenere, economicamente, la vostra sta
Valerio Bassan

Heading to the (Over) Promised Land of the Bay Area? Seeing Wizards Part 2

They’re Off to See the Wizard . . . Part 2 A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the Italian startups selected to go to Silicon Valley, courtesy of the Mind the Bridge VentureCamp competition. (I also understand that several winners of the ...

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James C. Roberts III

Startup Showcase: Knowledge from ThePrimate.it Thanks to x23.

I was recently contacted by Marika of Xoolab about showcasing their new startup project, The Primate. Since that time, the company has changed its name to X23. Below is the interview with Giuseppe Laquidara, CEO and founder. (The content has ...

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James C. Roberts III

Face Time in Milano for Venture Capitalists

From time to time in this column I will highlight upcoming venture capital and startup events. In this case it is a conference of venture capitalists in Milan in late November. Here is the information: Kultur Convivio:
venture capitalist ...

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James C. Roberts III

Startup Q&A: Interview with Timbuktu Labs

Q&A with Timbutu Labs (in Italian) Below is the first in a series of “interviews” or Q&A sessions with founders of various startups.  Somtimes they are founders I know and sometimes not (and I will disclose whatever ...

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James C. Roberts III

Great News for Italian Venture Capital: Better Regulations for Investment (or the price of rutabaga or a visit from ET)

Great News for Italian Venture Capital!  (?) I think I just read some important news. (Of course, with my knowledge of Italian, the article might have talked about the price of rutabaga or a visit of ET from outer space, so I apologize.)

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James C. Roberts III

The Italian Startup Scene & The Talent Pool


The Italian Startup Scene & The Talent Pool
In my previous columns I started digging into the argument that Italian startups were world-class and with later columns I will continue the analysis of these impressive companies. ...

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James C. Roberts III

Lose a Gejillion Euros: Why IP Assignment Language Matters

(A "machine translation" of this post can be found at this link) (File this under: “We told you so!”) If you want to risk losing many millions of Euros (or dollars), then don't bother using lawyers. Stanford Goofed An ...

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James C. Roberts III

YIKES!! Start up a Startup with (Almost) No Capital and No Notaio

The IC Pressroom website reposted an article from the Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore (13 January 2012) about the proposed “liberalization” of the Italian market and its effect on startup incorporation requirements. Essentially, for ...

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James C. Roberts III

They're Off to See the Wizard . . .

The Mind the Bridge VentureCamp 2011 results are in and they are great. These are the companies going to San Francisco early in 2012 to work with the MtB team: Arkimedia (I Like TV) (www.arkimedia.com)
D-Orbit (www.deorbitaldevices.com)

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James C. Roberts III

Italian Translation of: Lose a Gejillion Euros--Why IP Assignment Language Matters

Below is a "machine translation" into Italian of a blog post that can be found in English at this link. (Questo file sotto: "Ve lo avevamo detto!") Se si vuole rischiare di perdere molti milioni di euro (o dollari), quindi ...

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James C. Roberts III

Non voglio mica la luna, voglio solo una Startup

Il racconto del Working Capital 2012.  Era calda l'aria ieri a Roma, così calda da sembrare Primavera. Una Primavera anticipata o forse solo in ritardo, visto che il calendario dell'iPad non mentiva: 13 novembre.

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Sergio Ragone

Un milione di euro

La famiglia Berlusconi investe a Berlino

La holding che riunisce i cinque figli del Cav, "B Cinque", avrebbe finanziato la società Payleven

Non guidate guardando (solo) lo specchietto retrovisore. Il caso dei giornali on line

Quando mi hanno mandato l'interessante rapporto dell'Università di Oxford - Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism dal titolo "Survival is sucess - Journalistic On line Start-ups in Western Europe" mi sono un ...

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Andrea Tavecchio

Why Write This Column?

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James C. Roberts III