I don’t know if it has been for the creative logo made by our graphics artist Luca Fadigati, the strong points or the project, the quality of the documentation we submitted, the brilliant presentation held with Guido at the Chamber of Commerce of Como last week or even the elegant suit tailored for that special occasion by the friends at Sartoria Orefice , or most probably a combination of all these elements, but the end results is that we won the Special Award of the CCIAA Como at the StartCup 2006.
We’re working on something not really new, something others already did by using the latest mobile technologies applied to the sector of cultural goods, but possibly the difference is that we’re bringing our idea towards excellence and the commission got a glimpse of it and decided to choose us although they told us the other projects were very interesting.
Yesterday in Milan professor Roberto Negrini gave us the award during the exciting ceremony of the StartCup finals.
The first picture captured that moment with me and Luca on the stage. The emotion was great, the same emotion that passed through the hands of our photographer.
The second one depicts the team, almost complete since Guido is missing, with professor Negrini and Paolo and Samantha of Opla S.r.l., our primary collaborators. The third shows all the winner groups on the big stage of the main hall of the Università degli Studi.
After the ceremony we had a nice walk around the Duomo of Milan thanks to an exceptionally good weather for the season and I took a pic of the famous Madunina on top of it.
The cash award will help us to quickly get to the prototipation phase of the project, to motivate a team that relied upon its own forces until now, and most importantly it opens the perspective to be incubated as a startup in the offices of the Polo Regionale of Como. This if what we actually were looking for, good job i-boys!

        

Here the article about the incubation published by the local daily newspaper La Provincia.