Hello everybody!

Apart from following my university courses, this year I participated in a Business Plan competition, called Start Cup

Last semester I had passed the “Strategic Planning” course, in which, together with Ayman, we had prepared a business plan. For those who do not know, a BP is the key document to start-up a company. It includes the business idea, service description and all the searching, planning and tools regarding the strategic, marketing, human resources, operational and financial fields.

It was a voluntary work, but it was a huge work. I have never team-worked like this, we got crazy working, specially the last days when the deadline was getting closer. We put a lot of effort and we are very proud of the result.

So proud we were that we decided to make some changes and improvements during the summer and then to present our business idea to the business plan competition of the Lombardy Region.


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We had almost forgotten about when at the beginning of October I got a call from the organization to announce that we were finalist for the special award of the Chamber of Commerce of Como (4000 euros). Therefore, we had an interview for the 20th October. So, one week ago I was reading one more time this loved BP.

As we were expecting, we didn’t win in the end (there was some other Italians teams with thir companies about to be launch, and our financial requirements were quite ambitious to be met).

But, at least we got an small reference at the awards ceremony:

Un ulteriore premio speciale del valoroe di 4mila euro messo a disposizione della Camera di commercio di Como è stato vinto da Imuse che ha sviluppato una guida multimediale e interattiva su computer palmare per musei ed eventi artistici. Il premio lo ha consegnato Roberto Negrini, prorettore vicario del polo regionale di Como del Politecnico di Milano che ha voluto sottolineare il ruolo internazionale del politecnico enfatizzando come alcuni dei progetti presentati sono frutto del lavoro di studenti stranieri che hanno scelto il Politecnico di Milano per seguire i corsi di laurea specialistica.

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It was a pity, because I will always believe in our great business idea.