Tanya has blocked me on Twitter and Facebook after I publicly called her out.

No one seems to know where she is or how to get a hold of her. Who does that?
It’s hard to pick out the one single thing that’s so disappointing about Tanya because there’s so many to choose from.
If I had to pick one I’d say Tanya doesn’t have a grip on reality. She doesn’t seem to get it.This is a major screwup and Tanya hasn’t worked to repair her image or earn anyone’s trust back.

Your a Griswold !!!

Tanya Noel has probably major responsibilities in this story but she does not seem to run away like some companies at Wall Street did.

Since my opinion may not be that relevant, I wrote some quote of some people that are a little more well known than me:

I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work .- Thomas Edison

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell

The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake – you can’t learn anything from being perfect .- Adam Osborne

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. – Mario Andretti

Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. – Winston Churchill

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure. – Bill Cosby

Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice. – Peter Drucker

Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything. – W. Clement Stone

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success. – Jack Welch

I’d also say that the location is a bit strange for an event about business/startups, since most of the new companies/incubators are in the Milan/lombardy area or anyway in different locations.

I appreciated in any case the idea of an event like this one, we will never get enough of them to create a more open landscape to everyone who wants to launch a new technology company.

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Please…

I agree on what you wrote above, though.

‘nough said…

The financial democratization (in terms of start-up costs) and technological accessibility (=most of the softwares needed for your e-platform are ready-made, costless and available online) of the Internet media allow first-comers to call themselves “Entrepreneurs” within a 24 hours time-period…and “serial or visionary entrepreneurs” or “web experts” after 48hrs…(owning a couple of domains or having a Twitter account doesn’t necessarily turn you into an e-xpert!). To tell the truth it is not all your fault, internet accessibility is so smooth, shiny and within reach that quite often can give you the feeling that you became “something or someone” after a few clicks, yes, it is a venial sin…AKA “The last spoon of Nutella syndrome”: you taste it (your first blog)…you try it again (your Twitter account)…one more(your first domain)…and by the time you have finished the all jar you find yourself speaking to a Nutella conference as Nutella expert surrounded by Nutella addicted….

PS Tanya, I do not know you personally, but I can certainly say that the failure of this conference is not attributable to you: unfortunately you have surrounded yourself of (immature) Italian entrepreneur wannabes. Hope they will get this message…

Gino

It was from this sentiment, of how complex and challenging the economy is in Europe, and from a visit to the White House in Washington DC, this year in March, with a group from Silicon Valley interested in promoting a bill to make it easier for people from other countries to come to the U.S. to start a tech business, that inspired this first conference to take place in Europe, and in Italy, in particular.

When I speak with Italiani in Italy or in Silicon Valley, the sentiment they have about this lack of infrastructure to support Italian entrepreneurship development, is very strong. By nature, many Italians are entrepreneur’s, and they love innovation, and they want to be part of the worldwide efforts to create and build new and innovative technologies. The week before our conference, there was a Pan-European conference on Innovation in Trento; two weeks before our conference there was the innovation conference that Mike B. mentioned took place in Rome, by the Italians of the Frontier, and on the exact days of our conference, there was the ‘Internet Life’ event in Firenze (Florence). (Naturally, when we chose the date of our conference, we did not know about these other conferences.)
In the process of organizing our conference, my team and I spoke with many talented, passionate, innovative European’s, including Italian’s, and it was clear, that even though some of the government’s are not doing all that they can, to encourage the growth of innovation and entrepreneurship, the people in Europe are doing amazing things, and trying their best, against many odds. More power to them!

I’m sure Mike and co have strong enough relationships with folk like Simon Jenner in the Midlands, Thomas Drapier in Scotland or other folk across the continent to get regular updates in order to offer the rest of us more than enough insight into interesting teams, concepts and ideas?

I’d love to see ‘mini’ updates of some new companies that Mike, Steve and co meet on their travels, even if it’s a logo and a paragraph about the company. Speaking as someone from the ‘dark side’, that would be where TC Europe could really help boost the ecosystem as a whole.

Keep up the good work