On last Friday me and Guido Panini, one of the two core members of the team I assembled since the beginning of the year to work on a technologic innovation project, held a 16 slides presentation at the Chamber of Commerce of Como.
We have been invited to discuss our project to compete for one of the special prizes of the StartCup 2006, the annual competition organized by the seven universities in Milan aimed to promote the creation of startup companies.
In front of a commission composed by Paolo de Santis, the president of the Chamber of Commerce of Como, Pierluigi della Vigna and Roberto Negrini, two of the best professors I had when I was attending university, as well as Giorgio Corradi, responsible for the incubator at the Polo Regionale of Como, we began the presentation with beating hearts.
We felt secure about the strong points of our project since we’ve been seriously working on it since the beginning of the year and we did see it slowly evolving on the right path, but you never know whatever can happen on such occasions, especially considering it was our first presentation outside our working group.
The presentation went well and the commission seemed positively impressed by our project. They asked us a lot of questions and we well exceeded the time we initially had.
There are five candidates in total for this special prize and on Wednesday 25th in the main hall of the Università degli Studi di Milano they’ll announce the winners.
We’ll be there with our fingers crossed…