Ok, it’s a bad expression which can give cause for never ending witty remarks, but for the three of us, me, Luca and Guido, recently awarded at the Startcup 2006, the regional contest for startup creation, the meaning is pretty clear: other than the cash prize by the Chamber of Commerce of Como our real target was the incubation!
We’re now hosted (incubated!) in the startup accelerator of the Polo Regionale di Como of the Politecnico di Milano.
We finally have an office, at the third floor of the building in Piazzale Gerbetto, where we can continue working on the project we worked on until now powered only by our enthusiasm and hard work aiming since the beginning to a result of excellence.
The office is fully operative by now from a technical point of view, while we still have a lot to do for what concerns the furnishings, especially after we’ve seen how the girls of Ciren and Urbano Creativo, neo-incubated at the second floor, did set up their office.
We really need the female touch for that!
Professor Negrini, who gave us the award at the Startcup, told us this was his office before he moved to the other Politecnico’s building in Via Anzani. Really a privilege considering how much I think highly of him.
During the introductory meeting of the new startups he used a very motivating expression: “Now you’re entrepreneurs!” he told us.
Personally I do rely a lot on the network of competences that can be established among the ten startups now incubated in Como and actually it’s a pleasure being able to discuss and relate with other realities operating in the same sector. From these relations new interesting opportunities can be generated.
After the pizza-dinner with Luca and Guido to celebrate our first meeting in the office, as you can see in the pic, and the usual tea break at 17 ò clock with the kind MetalC’s staff at the third floor we can say that being incubated is not a bad thing at all!