A winning idea on the internet, giving away a trip to San Francisco – The Tirreno

 PISA. Back for the fourth edition .itCup Registry, the startup competition organized by Registro.it, the registrar of domains Italians managed by the Institute of Informatics and Telematics of the National Research Council in Pisa. .itCup is reserved for business ideas in the field of internet, from smartphone applications, to web services to the most varied world of the Internet of Things. Like every year, the final event will take place in the course of the Internet Festival of Pisa, Friday, October 9, 2015.

 

 They can participate in .itCup students and professionals, individually or in teams, with ideas of startup or established business for innovative products and services in the ICT sector. Requests to participate may already be sent (up to 15 June 2015). The jury of .itCup select up to a maximum of ten business ideas that will participate in a process of mentorship from industry experts startups and innovative companies, which will include a two-day classroom in Pisa guests of the office of the CNR. At the end of this phase, the finalists will offer their pitch to investors and will select five finalists, who will compete for the prizes offered by the partners of .itCup the day of the final, voted by a trio of prominent leaders of the world startups.

 

 Up for grabs this year a trip to San Francisco and the inscription at Startup School of Mind The Bridge (prize offered by the Foundation Denoth) and a communications consultancy offered by IDNA. New for 2015 is rather a partnership with b-ventures, accelerator technology startups Buongiorno. b-ventures will award to one of the finalists of .itCup Register a check for € 4,000.

 

 Media partners of the event is confirmed Startupitalia, the platform dedicated to the world of Italian startup. “Each new edition of .itCup was a growing, both in the number of startups that participants in the quality of the finalists,” says Domenico Laforenza, director of Registro.it. “This is a sign that there is turmoil in our country, a creative and entrepreneurial vitality that does not stop in front of the crisis. In our small, since the first edition, we just sent this signal: boys, formatevi, you undertake, be curious and get in the game. The results achieved by the startup year after year give us reason. We hope to see this fourth edition projects increasingly competitive and increasingly qualitative ideas, that can bring ideas and solutions to firms more established ICT “.

 

 In the edition 2014 the trip to Silicon Valley was won by Bills in Cloud, service invoicing digital launched by twenty-three Daniele Ratti that in a year from launch already has more than 30,000 active users.