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With some days of delay I’m summarizing up what happened during the second day of Eye for Travel’s Travel Distribution Summit Europe 2009.
What caught my attention was indeed the “Get funded” contest and panel, who saw four startups (TravelWhere, Zoombu, Joobili and Tourdust) pitching their business to the audience and four angel investors: Dick Porter, [...]

From 19-20 May 2009 Travel Distribution Summit Europe 2009 will open its gates at the Business Design Centre in London.
Travel Distribution Summit is one of the largest and most important online travel events, featuring top executives from industry companies sharing their insights with the travel community.
Among those executives Alyson Playford, Head of Global Travel Partnerships [...]

31 Dec, 2008

“Best of” picks for 2008

Posted by: Francesco In: Science & Technology

Best Conference of The Year
PICNIC
A truly inspiring conference held in Amsterdam, a city I fell in love with, due to its great vibe and cultural mix.
The conference itself has been the greatest networking opportunity I had in 2008, as I met many people from different backgrounds and fields.
Best Gadget of the Year
iPhone 3G

I’ve always been [...]

31 Dec, 2008

What a ride!

Posted by: Francesco In: Startupper's life| Travels

I’ve never been to as many conferences and events as I’ve been in this extraordinary 2008!

I’m not happy to see all these reactions to Le Web, in particular to the behavior of Micheal Arrington at the conference, where basically he said the Europeans are lazy, provoking the reaction of the whole European entrepreneurs community as well as the one of LeWeb’s organizer, Loic Le Meur.
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I strongly believe, [...]

12 Dec, 2008

LeWeb ‘08 Wrap Up

Posted by: Francesco In: Internet & Web 2.0

My days in Paris are over and it’s time to wrap up this year’s LeWeb conference.
I have to say that, for me, this year conference hasn’t been as inspiring as the last one, where a series of speeches and presentations truly opened up my mind showing me new ways of looking at things.
This year many [...]


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