Sunday, June 6, 2010

Here are the startups selected for the Gym in Turin


This Thursday (June 10th) our Mind the Bridge Italy Tour stops in Turin, with the first of our Special Events.
It is a full day program. Startup School in the morning, a session of our MtB Gym in the afternoon.
In the afternoon we are going to reproduce here in Italy what we regularly do in Silicon Valley with the startpus admitted to our mentorship program: startups presenting their business plans in front of a panel of venture capitalists and seasoned entreprenuers. Open discussion, comments, honest feedbacks. Ultimate goal is fine tuning the business idea (what and where it works, where and what doesn't) and improving the presentation.
For the event in Turin we have received a lot of applications and we are really excited about this.
Here are the 5 startups our selection committee admitted to the Gym session in Turin:
- Intervieweb
- Makoo
- URLi.st
- Visual Sport
- We-Sport
All the other plans we received do still sound interesting. Time contraints forced us to pick-up only 5 startups. Not being in the list above does not mean that there is no potential in your plan. Then we are looking forward to meeting all the startups (not only the selected ones) in Turin, where to share insights and provide some feedback.



We strongly suggest to take part to the whole event with your entire management team (please register if you haven't yet done).
Startups admitted to the Gym session have 10 minutes for presenting their idea (we will send you a template for structuring your presentation). Presentation will be followed by 20/25 minute time of Q&A.
The key word of the Gym is open discussion. Then partecipating to the Gym session is a must for all the startups, not only for the ones we selected to present. Everybody can largely benefit from the discussion of all the business ideas as well as the education program in the morning.
See you there and stay tuned!

1 comment:

Paolo Tode said...

Suggerimento: perchè non organizzare uno Special Event anche a Nordest?

A Padova il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'informazione ha recentemente organizzato un incontro con gli studenti padovani per presentare il programma Fulbright BEST:
http://www.bestprogram.it/index.php?option=com_viewnews&task=view&id=40

Inoltre potreste chiedere all'incubatore privato M31 di sponsorizzare questo evento. Con Fulbright BEST ha già offerto la sua collaborazione:
http://www.m31.com/en/news/news/m31-e-fulbright-best.html

Saluti e complimenti per l'ottimo lavoro che state facendo!

Paolo