Who? Me?
Yes, I’m still alive and I’m here to give you a great news: I’ve been nominated for this year’s BusinessWeek’s Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs contest.
A few days ago, I was contacted by a reporter for BusinessWeek who let me know I’d just been picked, along with 15 other very smart — and young — European entrepreneurs, to be voted for the Europe’s Young Entrepreneurs 2007 contest.
I had to talk a bit about my ventures starting from 16bugs to what we’re doing now at Wonsys.
Sure enough I was and am ecstatic about it, and I’m really honoured to be included in that list.
In my humble opinion Italy doesn’t pay much attention to its young entrepreneurs, so I’m glad I’ve been nominated and I feel a bit like I’m representing all of the young Italians who are trying to make it big. I’m not sure if I’m the best person to do it, but I’ll try my best at it.
Now you can have a look at the slide show…and feel free to vote for me at the end… ;)
This post was written 1 year, 1 month ago on June 2nd, 2007 mid-afternoon.
2007.11.27


Andre
1 year, 1 month ago
Congratulations Michele, what a honor it must be for you! By the way, you totally deserve the nominee :-) Keep it up, mate!
Michele
1 year, 1 month ago
Thanks Andrea! :)
BTW, any chance of you coming to Pycon next Sunday? we’re going to talk at a panel and I’d be happy to meet you there.
Federico
1 year, 1 month ago
Hey, that’s a big step for you! Congratulations! ;)
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AsceticMonk
1 year, 1 month ago
Wow! Congratulations bro!
Giorgio Martini
1 year, 1 month ago
Che dire? Complimenti!
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riffraff
1 year, 1 month ago
congrats!
I agree, in italy there is not enough enough attention paid to young entrpreneurs.
But it’s partly your guilt: how often do italian startuppers interact with each other, even if at the level of simple crosslinking from blogs, a minimal moo.fx is cool/I’ve been using 16bugs/nice translation of getting real from extendi etc etc
gabriele, spamming 16bugs since april/06 ;)
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Michele
1 year, 1 month ago
Thanks everyone! :)
@ Gabriele: I must say you’re right and I’m partly guilty, too. :)
This week-end, though, we were at Pycon and met with some great people from all over Italy. I felt like there really is the willingness to try and make things better.
Thanks for spamming 16bugs… ;)
Fabiana
1 year, 1 month ago
wow Congrats!!! I voted already!!! ha imagine you might be a great businessman someday and I´ll be able to tell people you comented on my pics hahha, —- the best of Luck!
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James John Malcolm
1 year ago
Congrats, that’s quite an honour!
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