| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.12.2021 | Fintech will be bank, bank will be fintech | Around the corner there will be many open challenges and surprises, in the post-Covid time that still needs to be imagined. According to McKinsey & Company, in 2020 European economies shrank by 11% on average, and the most updated estim... |
| 18.03.2021 | Mymenu joins Pellegrini Group: you don’t need to be a unicorn to create value and start changing the shape of Italian entrepreneurship | In recent years, very few industries have grown as much as that of food delivery. As stated in the B2C eCommerce Observatory by Politecnico di Milano University and Netcomm, in 2020 Food&Grocery e-commerce grew at a rate of +70% YoY (wh... |
| 06.03.2021 | Ten years, two start-ups and two “exits”: Andrea Di Camillo (P101) and Antonio Perini (Milkman) tell us how it all happened – Part 2 | Let’s go back for a moment: Milkman was born in 2016 and Di Camillo and Perini were both part of it. On May 21st, Poste Italiane entered the capital of this start-up, and you officially became two “serial exiters”…
Antonio Perini: After my... |
| 24.12.2020 | N26, Doctolib, Vinted: the European unicorns are coming. Now we need actions that will harmonize the regulations | The ecosystem of European start-ups is running fast, however, Europe still needs a united political action to close the gap with the USA and record-breaking Asia.
Above all, greater harmonization of regulations at the European level is of ... |
| - | The lessons learned by Sellf, the app awarded by Confcommercio for Service Innovation 2016 | Sellf is the virtual coach that helps businesses reach and surpass their goals. This year Sellf has been selected by Confcommercio as the best app for service innovation. Here are the five lessons learned by the startup that works as a “per... |
| - | Online Design: the Lessons Learned by Juliette Bellavita, Founder of shoppable.it | Scattered notes from a conversation with Juliette Bellavita, founder of Shoppable, the e-commerce reference website for lifestyle and unconventional décor.
What have we learned, developed and perfected at Shoppable in three years, during w... |
| - | Noah Berlin: where the future of European innovation is written | They write Noah Berlin, we read “the future of innovation”. It’s one of the main European early-stage and late-stage VC conferences: it took place in mid-June, gathering 5,000 participants, 1,500 start-ups and 700 investors. It’s where the ... |
| - | Venture capital: the alternative investment that boosts your portfolio value | High yields, decorrelation, tax advantages and support to real economy
In search of alpha types, the road leads to venture capital. Particularly suited to pension and institutional funds, the start-up business can be a booster of portfolio... |
| - | The fintech revolution of P2P lending: product innovation, secondary loan market, re-bundled banking by the end of 2018. Forecasts from LendIT 2017 | The next 15 months will see a strong acceleration and profound changes in the world of P2P lending
LendIt Europe ends in London with this this great promise. Two days were entirely devoted to the world of marketplace lending, an industry t... |
| - | The future stops by DLD Tel Aviv | We have just taken part to the 6th edition of the DLD Tel Aviv Innovation Festival, one of the most important events dedicated to digital innovation. The focal point of the Festival, which develops throughout the city in a similar way to ou... |
| - | Exit growth: a changing geography | Exit, the “magic word” when it comes to start-up investment, does no longer frighten Europe. According to the European Tech Exits Report by Tech.eu, in 2015, in the tech industry only, European exits have been 594 – 65% more than in 2014. B... |
| - | E–grocery: smart logistics is the key | As Jeff Bezos and Jack Ma have very well understood, digital and physical networks are increasingly interconnected. We order online, confirm by email, but then we receive our goods thanks to a courier that delivers them to our door or to co... |
| - | Venture capital: the policy changes that will make it fly in 2018 | In the Finance Bill, a more generous deduction of 30%. But the real opportunity will be the European EuVeca reform, in March
The big news that was so long awaited for by the world of Italian Venture capital? In the end it was not even disc... |
| - | PIR 2.0: the Italian individual savings plans are under attack even before starting | The latest clarifications about the new Italian long-term savings plans (PIR) were provided by the Italian Income Revenue Authority in mid-July. But the new PIR – which were formalized in May by means of an official publication – are in fac... |
| - | Investors Meeting 2016 and International Roadshow: a year of growth for P101 | On the terrace at P101 our Investors Meeting is going on.
We tell our guests about the results we have achieved, and especially about future strategy. Today our startups present themselves to international investors and tell them about the... |
| - | The Italian venture capital market is coming of age, and with the boost of the new Budget Law it can grow even faster | The new Budget Law comprehends several innovative measures that, if well directed by the Implementation Decrees that should see the light at the end of March, will give new impetus to the Italian market of Venture Capital.
These measures a... |
| - | Our Bet on Italy | Our challenge for the year 2016 is to fulfill the promise we made in 2015 – that is, that companies in which we have invested will grow and become big employers and important economic realities of 2016, 2017 and all the years to come. Italy... |
| - | The Covid-19 pandemic has consolidated the data economy | Data, data, data. They are at the center of the economy, they are the most important asset today. And the companies that know how to make the most of them will be only ones thriving. This year’s edition of Saastock Emea – one of the most im... |
| - | Why the “digital disruption” should lead to rethink traditional business models | Francisco Gonzalez, CEO of the renowned international bank BBVA, has stated that 50% of the banks could disappear in the coming years due to the so-called digital disruption in the fintech industry. The former CEO of Cisco said that 40% of ... |
| - | Artificial intelligence: the game changer in financial services | Notes from London by Giuseppe Donvito, Partner of P101
In 2017 investors poured in over $15.2B in funding to AI startups across industries. It was a 141% jump in funding from 2016. This monster figure will decrease when machine learning be... |
| - | Online vs offline? Different strategies, but shared goals | We have been among the first Italian advocates of the message that digital technologies, new ideas and new businesses are essential to Italy’s economic fabric. They can bring innovation even to already brilliant entrepreneurship which is so... |
| - | Ten years, two start-ups and two “exits”: Andrea Di Camillo (P101) and Antonio Perini (Milkman) tell us how it all happened – Part 1 | Vision, velocity, coldness, a pinch of good luck. These features are common to the two happy-ending entrepreneurial stories of Andrea Di Camillo, founder and CEO of P101, and Antonio Perini, serial start-upper and the mind behind Milkman. M... |
| - | Venture capital funds? In the long term, they’ll beat the market | What are the returns on VC? On average, a diversified portfolio today makes about twice the funding provided to grow a business. And, surprisingly, first time funds’ performance is close to that of historical funds, which frees the field fr... |
| - | Amazon Prime lands in Milan. But are we sure that “faster” delivery is better than “more punctual” or “to the right place”? | In the USA they have a saying: “don’t drink and Prime” that has by now replaced the more traditional admonition “don’t drink and drive” with reference to the habit of driving after having a few too many drinks. Indeed, online shopping can b... |
| - | Innovation ecosystem: do Italian entrepreneurs do their part? | “Together with financial resources, another important ingredient of a thriving start-up ecosystem are entrepreneurs who are ready to engage in new projects,” stated Oecd in an assessment report of the Italian Startup Act, the policy includi... |
| - | Italy’s National Innovation Fund gets underway: the first milestone in the building of a “Smart Nation Italy” | Italy as a Smart Nation? The time may have come. The first steps, at least, have been taken, even in the midst of a political crisis that creates uncertainty about the coming months. And there are some important news – starting from the ver... |
| - | AlpGIP widens its range of action. It’s the first Italian fund embracing more than one region | AlpGIP has completed three investments and is currently reviewing 40 more. The first macro-regional fund supporting innovative SMEs from Northern Italy has welcomed today yet another region: Liguria
The Alpine Growth Investment Platform (A... |
| - | M&As can accelerate the change brought on by FinTech | Something is deeply changing in the relationship between banks and FinTech. Banks started to see FinTech startups as a threat only in 2010, but it wasn’t until five years later that they understood a simple truth: that instead of fighting t... |
| - | P101 Ventures at the Tech Tour: Giuseppe Donvito tells that “Italy is attractive for venture capital. But we need more funding” | Increasing the scale of Italian venture capital funds and encouraging the encounter between venture capitalists and innovators who want to translate their out-of-the-box ideas into business. These are the two pillars on which the growth of ... |
| - | Confessions of a Peer to Peer Lender | Or innovation explained over a coffee
On the other side of the phone Alessio is listening carefully while I tell him that he might have found the solution he was looking for. He asks questions, replies “seems fair,” “fine,” “it’s what I wa... |
| - | Cyber security, an investment opportunity for innovation | Over 1600 deals for more than $13 billion that have been invested since 2012. An estimated growth of 700% over the next 10 years, and the creation of 2 million new jobs in the US alone. We are talking of cyber security, i.e. tech companies ... |
| - | Data-driven Strategy, or how to build on Big Data | Big data – i.e. data that companies collect so extensively in terms of variety, volume and speed as to require specific technologies and analytical methods – are one of the most interesting products of the digital revolution. It seems that ... |
| - | Italy’s online habits confronted with the rest of the world | There are 30.5 million Italian people connected, that correspond to 78% of the Italian population aged between 16 and 65. The number of mobile users, in particular, is growing fast. These and more data are collected in the European Digital ... |
| - | Why the IT industry (and software in particular) is not a bubble | SaaS spending will grow by 8.5% annually over the next three years. GDP will grow by 2.3%. In the last 6 years, venture capital investments in SaaS companies have grown by four times. AI, machine learning, cloud and content creation: this i... |
| - | How much innovation is there in the Italian retail industry? | Not much, but rapidly growing – according to the Observatory for Digital Innovation in Retail, promoted by the Politecnico School of Management in Milan.
If the absolute numbers of the Italian retail industry’s investment in technology are... |
| - | There are more than 10,000 innovative startups in Italy | Italy counts more than 10,000 innovative startups. This is good news for the Venture Capital market, since it means that VC funds can pick and choose from a wider basket, thus increasing their portfolio quality. The growing number of start-... |
| - | What could encourage innovation in Italy? More freedom for institutional investors | As frequently highlighted by researchers and the industry, the importance of looking beyond traditional investment tools, as well as recognizing the potential difficulties associated with alternative investments (such as illiquid asset clas... |
| - | Investors Meeting, 2018: P101 development and general future trends | On April 19th, on the terrace of P101 headquarters in the heart of Milan, our Investors Meeting took place. It’s our annual event in which we look back on last year’s achievements as well as taking a look at the future. A digital and hyper-... |
| - | The rise of the experiential traveller and what it means for the travel market | As modern life has become globalised and significantly homogenized due to the widespread adoption of new technologies, the expectations and desires of travellers have changed. Through mobile devices, tablets and computers, travellers are mo... |
| - | Start Act: the draft law that can boost the world of Italian startups | From the Startup Act to the Start Act. A new regulatory framework (just a draft, at the moment) that should give a ‘shock to the Italian startup ecosystem’ – in the words of its petitioner, MP Mattia Mor. This proposal follows the 6-years-o... |
| - | Time for evaluation: 2016 according to entrepreneurs | More investment opportunities, more exits, more funds dedicated to technology, more hubs. This is the picture that emerges from two reports that have been published a few days ago and offer a panoramic of the US and UK start-up markets, res... |
| - | FinTech, or the Uberization of Finance | “Silicon Valley is coming” warned JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon in his annual letter to shareholders, pointing out at the increasing number of startups working on various alternatives to traditional banking. He was referring especially to ... |
| - | “We need to find capital to prevent Italian start-uppers from fleeing.” Enrico Noseda, partner of growITup, tells P101 about the platform that connects corporations and start-ups, wanted by Microsoft... | A fertile humus of ideas – 6,000 active start-ups – and incubators – over 100 – with a venture capital value of just 170 million euros. This is Italy, a land of saints, poets and sailors who, however, as in ancient times, often need to leav... |
| - | The five VC trends of the new decade | Europe is leading
A new decade has started for global VC. A decade that begins with some news: the Asian market is slowing down while the European one is showing a strong dynamism and is growing. The quality of European start-ups is gettin... |
| - | “She’s got a ticket to ride” | As The Beatles used to sing a few years ago… and if, back then, the streets were lit up by light poles, today the light comes from smartphones and tablets, where you can look for inspiration, book journeys, hotels, dinners or concerts. You ... |
| - | Southern Europe, the new cradle for innovation | When talking about start-ups and innovation in Europe, our thought immediately goes to cities like London and Berlin. Sometimes Amsterdam, or Paris.
The southern area of the old continent has so far been a little acclaimed and silent playe... |
| - | What the SwiftKey deal with Microsoft means for personal computing | Microsoft’s acquisition of AI company SwiftKey has surely been the most rumoured deal of the past week, not just due to its financial order of magnitude, but for what this step might mean for the tech giant.
SwiftKey launched in 2010, brin... |
| - | Internet of Things, Internet of Everything or more simply… The beginning of an “interconnected” life | Connected objects that can communicate with each other without any need for human intervention: a bed that talks to the blinds and the coffee machine – so that with a simple gesture, getting out of bed, the blinds roll up and the fire rises... |
| - | Food: the lessons learned by Daniele Biffoli, founder of Gourmant.com | After nearly three years from its birth, Gourmant.com – the startup that connects food and wine lovers with local Italian producers – is now a competitive reality in the world of high quality food and wine e-commerce, with its 100 thousand ... |
| - | Notes from Las Vegas, city of sin, but also of digital and connected devices – thanks to CES 2019, the excellent fair of consumer electronics | Foldable monitors, technology’s “pink quotas” and beautifully crafted Made-in-Italy products that can gain their space in a China-dominated world
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the most important and long-living (since 1967) consumer... |
| - | 10 hot technology trends for 2017 | The ten key technologies of 2017, according to Gartner, the American research and advisory firm providing IT-related insight, revolve around what is called intelligent digital mesh. This mesh is a mix of people, things and services enabled ... |
| - | Farewell oil, hello tech: the world’s five most valuable companies in 2006 and 2016 | From smartphones and social media, to virtual reality and artificial intelligence, the tech-oriented world we live in today looks very different to how things were just 10 years ago. In 2006, oil giant Exxon Mobil headed the list of the wor... |
| - | Startups that simplify your summer | In Italy the digital tourism market is worth 9.5 billion Euros, which is one-fifth of total domestic transactions. From travel planning to small concerns about what we take with us on vacation, there are many startups that have decided to c... |
| - | How to boost Italian Venture Capital? Streamline bureaucracy | “The Italian venture capital has been suffering from a structural delay and hence it has fallen behind both on a dimensional and on a regulatory level. But, at least on the former, we are catching up. As for the latter, something is moving,... |
| - | The silent revolution of the retail chain | The value of e-commerce in the retail market was, in 2016, close to $2 billion, that is, 8.7% of the entire industry. And if the overall growth of retail sales is slowing down, digital retail continues to increase very rapidly, with a growt... |
| - | Digital tourism: this year’s Christmas trends according to Octorate | Just in Italy, digital tourism is worth 10.3 billion Euros. This is an important share of the Italian travel industry, which at the end of the year will generate revenues for more than 52 billion Euros and mark a 3% increase over 2015 – for... |
| - | What’s Hot? Digital Innovation Needs Physical Logistics | There is great excitement in the world of logistics and transport. Amazon Fresh has recently landed in London with same-day fresh food delivery; the freight forwarding company Flexport has swept onto TechCrunch radar and a Facebook group ha... |
| - | The 10 books and events you shouldn’t miss if you are an entrepreneur in 2018 | “Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.” Albert Einstein thought so. There is a rather easy way to increase our value as people before that as entrepreneurs: to read and learn. What is quite more diffic... |
| - | The not-so-hidden charm of logistics | “Logistics is not sexy”: we hear this all the time.
“You don’t sell evening gowns or futuristic gadgets, you do home deliveries,” goes the saying that we know by heart.
Immediately, images of shabby vans and unshaved drivers dumping packa... |
| - | Farewell unicorns, now VCs work as portfolio managers | P101 Ventures creates its funds through a process that resembles asset allocation. Thus it can double long-term capital
Venture capital as investible asset? It cannot be based on power law. The golden rule that in a VC portfolio there is o... |
| - | Mobility, Health, Real Estate, Finance: VC is looking at these increasingly tech industries | 2018: record year for VC investments in the world
2018 was a record year for the venture capital market not just in Italy but globally. According to Kpmg, VC investments have reached 254 billion dollars worldwide – a sharp increase when co... |
| - | The digital revolution of healthcare | Global funding to private digital health start-ups grew for the 7th straight year in 2016, hitting a high of $6.1 billion. 2017 has so far already seen its first billion dollar exit with CoverMyMeds being acquired by Mckesson. The market of... |
| - | The online wine market in Italy and abroad: a world to explore | When talking about online wine sales, many people tend to label them as a niche, but is it really such a small segment?
Here is some overall data:
• Italian wineries are more than 100,000;
• The Italian wine industry is valued nearly 10 ... |
| - | Fashion industry: when brick and mortar boosts online business | The relevance of online fashion shopping is increasingly supported by research. Online fashion is a serious business, especially in Italy, since – as shown by the eCommerce B2c Observatory of the Milan Politecnico University – it is worth o... |
| - | 2019 Investors Meeting: P101 explains how venture capital will evolve after the acceleration of year 2018 | Italian start-ups closed rounds for an overall amount of 480 million Euros in 2018. Deals that were worth at least 3 million euros amounted to a total of 408 million Euros. Italy is preparing to reap the benefits of government measures, whi... |
| - | Creative destruction, trial and error, lateral thinking: but always keeping a focus on customers | If there is a universal guide to innovation that every company should read, it is in the letters to shareholders that Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon, writes every year. In particular, in the latest (published in April), the CEO of the largest ... |
| - | Cognitive business: when computers become human and revolutionize the economy | Each of us generates nearly a gigabyte of data per day. This huge volume of data contains an incredible amount of information that we are able to read and organize thanks to cognitive computing.
Cognitive computing comes from a mashup of c... |
| - | VIDEO: Venture Capital in Italy: Luigi Tommasini of the Italian Investment Fund (Fondo Italiano d’Investimento) explains his vision to Andrea di Camillo of P101 | “Innovation has entered the political agenda only in recent times. However, already in the year 2012 the Fondo Italiano had started wondering what could be done in this regard. Venture Capital […] was one of the main solutions we had though... |
| - | Startup: DOs and DON’Ts When Asking Venture Capital Funding | With just one day left to New Year’s Eve, good intentions abound. Some people throw themselves on diets, others on new loves or work. If your purpose is to change your life and pursue your business idea, then it could be useful to know how ... |
| - | Innovation? It implies a cultural change | Forget open innovation and the other buzzwords: in order to seriously innovate, Boards must plan and activate a reorganization. And use M&A operations as a means to acquire new technologies
“Innovation” is a mantra for contemporary man... |
| - | Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers Internet Trends are our future: here’s why entrepreneurs cannot ignore them | The highly anticipated Mary Meeker and Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers data were finally published two weeks ago. Every year in this season, Mary Meeker and the KPCB fund draw the numbers and trends of the global technological and digital ma... |
| - | Plummeting Newspaper Ad Revenue Sparks New Publishing Era | All of us know that publishing, and newspapers in particular, are going through a period of great change. An accelerating and seemingly unavoidable drop in print advertising is pushing publishers to consider significant cost cuts and dramat... |
| - | The future of Italian venture capital: notes from Made in Italy 2020 | Explore the opportunities and challenges of the Italian venture capital in Europe, enhance and promote Italian digital excellence in the world: these were the objectives of the second edition of Made in Italy 2020, the event held in the Wes... |
| - | The French startup model, an inspiration for Italy and Europe | Blablacar, Sigfox, Withings? They are Unicorns and they are French. Around Paris, innovation is pushed to the levels of London and Berlin. This was noted, at least since 2015, by the EY Venture Capital Barometer in France. The latest update... |
| - | The future of computing | “After a glorious 50 years, Moore’s law — which states that computer power doubles every two years at the same cost — is running out of steam”, has recently been published in The Economist. After five decades, the end of Moore’s law is in s... |
| - | VC Hub Italia is the “permanent forum” for the Italian venture capital market. Its goals are to contribute to a culture of innovation and to bring the development of the Italian ecosystem to a new pha... | It’s a think tank that aims to promote a further development of Italian venture capital market, which is almost ready to compete on the international ground. It is called VC Hub Italia and is a “permanent forum” created by the managers of t... |
| - | Last mile, or the “holy grail” of the new millennium | Many people ask us: why has the last mile (the last stretch of home delivery, the one that brings products to your home) become a topic of conversation not only for insiders but also among the general public?
Just imagine: you are comfor... |
| - | A year of surprises for logistics | In the past the world of last-mile delivery, that is the last part of the delivery route of items that are shopped online, had to adapt to the needs of couriers, but is now experiencing a momentous focal shift: today, the centre of everythi... |
| - | European and Italian institutions investing in VC: why (and how) pension funds can help startups | Public financing accounts for 18% of European VC funding. In three years, Italian pension and insurance funds will be able to provide startup s with 1 billion Euros
“Europe’s economy is about the same size as that of the US, but our capita... |
| - | Web Summit 2016, from Lisbon the new European innovation network | 53,000 participants, 15,000 companies from 166 countries, 7,000 CEOs, 21 conferences, an expected turnover of about 250 million euros. This is Web Summit 2016, that is taking place in Lisbon these days. The Web Summit is the most important ... |
| - | Introducing NewsFromThePlatform: P101 Official Blog | We have created NewsFromThePlatform to tell what happens on our roof terrace, which is the place where our ideas circulate, mix and merge, and where we are continuously stimulated by the smart, innovative people who work with us.
What is... |
| - | The wind of innovation blows from the Mediterranean | Madrid, Lisbon, Milan, Athens: here are the next VC capitals. The startup ecosystem of Southern Europe is worth as much as the Northern one and is attracting increasingly more investments.
In Southern Europe you can breathe the fresh air o... |
| - | Board metamorphosis in High-Tech companies | Starting up a company is really hard work: it can be an on-off game where a single mistake can compromise everything. But what happens when a company grows moving away from the “start-up” phase and going into the “scale-up” territory? It is... |
| - | E-commerce and traditional retail, a new friendship | The Italian digital market is taking off: the number of customers has increased to 21 million, and purchase frequency and average amount have increased too. 2017 could be the year that sees the highest e-commerce growth since 2010, reaching... |
| - | The survival of banks in the digital age | VC-backed Fintech companies raised $12.7B across 836 deals in 2016. Europe Fintech deal activity reached five-year high, rising 11% compared to 2015 and 124% compared to 2011’s total. Indeed, European VC-backed companies raised $1.2B across... |
| - | The PropTech Confidence Index is flying high: investors and start-ups are ready to bet on this sector | The PropTech industry is flying on top of the world. And it will continue to do so in the near future. At least these are the expectations of investors and start-ups about one of last year’s most innovative industrial sectors. We talked abo... |
| - | Carried interest becomes capital income, another step in the Italian government’s opening to venture capital | Carried interest will be taxed as capital income and no longer as income from work. This is just the latest of many regulatory innovations introduced in venture capital over the last year. Indeed, since the Industry 4.0 plan of 2016, govern... |
| - | Italian start-up funding is higher than expected: almost 600 million euros at the end of November | Halfway through the year, we stated that the market of investments into Italian start-up companies would reach half a billion euros by the end of 2018. It seemed like an unusual size for Italy, whose market has always been around 100 millio... |
| - | Value Creation in Venture Capital | Talent scouting and coaching, here’s how VC funds help companies and investors grow their assets
The subject of value creation of an asset class such as VC has become more and more important to the Italian system, which is growing fast. In... |
| - | Virtual reality and augmented reality: are they really the future? | According to TechCrunch experts, by the year 2018 our smartphones will be able to support virtual reality and augmented reality. This is despite a fluctuating market, that last year had to face some difficulties – especially in the field of... |
| - | In Italy corporates are finally showing interest in start-ups | Musement, Octorate and Bauzaar: three of our subsidiaries have been recently acquired by big corporates. On the basis of the French model, in Italy large companies have started looking at VC funds as engine of innovation. This can make a di... |
| - | VIDEO: The Italian start-up scenario explained by Councillor for Innovation Paolo Barberis | “I’m analyzing this world [of Italian start-ups, ed] from my experience as an entrepreneur and also with the desire to make the digital world of innovation and technological development more and more vigorous.”
These are the words with whi... |
| - | Five steps to create value and innovate the economy and society through Venture Capital | VC creates value and can act as a driving force for Italy’s recovery. We have always said so, but during the Covid-19 emergency evidence was there for all to see, since the emergency urged all well-established businesses to embrace digitiza... |
| - | Big data, a whole new life for companies (if they learn how to use them) | The transformational potential of big data is huge. The volume of data continues to double every three years as information pours in from digital platforms, wireless sensors, virtual-reality applications, and billions of mobile phones. Data... |
| - | Marketplace lending: what we can learn from the UK | The trends for the future of marketplace lending are outlined in London, where it was born 10 years ago
It is worth about 85% of the European market, it keeps growing (+ 99% in 2015, when it moved 1,490 billion pounds) and, on the occasion... |
| - | Offline communication: a “blast” of tradition in a world devoted to innovation | The idea behind a startup is crucial, but alone it cannot guarantee its success. Marketing and communication play an essential role in the success of a startup, as they help build a distinctive corporate positioning and create brand awarene... |
| - | Artificial Intelligence – Will It Change the World Soon? | “I’ll teach it to let friends in by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell,” said Mark Zuckerberg speaking of artificial intelligence in a recent Facebook post, referring to the idea of designing his own Artificial Intelligence ... |
| - | Change of pace for the Italian venture capital | Many exits, investments constantly above 1million Euros and interest by foreign companies. These are the highlights of a market that is becoming more and more significant
The Italian venture capital is scaling up. We are starting to see im... |
| - | A good day starts in the morning | All over the world, Italy is appreciated for its historic cities, its welcoming culture and its delicious food. Recently, though, Italy’s fame has not come from art or history, rather – believe it or not! – from its vibrant start-up scene. ... |
| - | Start-up: Italy’s great opportunity |
$89 billion: that’s the value of innovation in the USA. That’s because 83% of the total value of US research & development ($108 billion) comes from companies born and bred thanks to venture capital investment. But that’s not all. The... |
