Ask HN: Anyone in Rome interested in a Hacker News Meetup?

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by bryanwb • 16 years ago

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I have been living in Rome, Italy for about 3 months and the startup scene here seems nonexistent. Any HNers in Rome interested in a meetup?

tudorizer• 16 years ago

Is there a startup scene in Italy? :)

bryanwb• 16 years ago

As far as I am aware, no. But I would love to proven wrong ;)

Milan seems to have a lot more tech activity than Rome.

At this point I am just curious if there are HN readers here in Rome.

bcurdy• 16 years ago

Of course, there's one :) Sure, it's not the biggest in the world, maybe not the most vibrant either but there are definitely interesting companies and great people. A few people you could try to follow/contact to get a sense of what's happening in Italy (I'm not Italian myself, so they'll know better than I do). Stefano Bernardi, VC from Milan, Pietro Polsinelli, one of the guys behind licorize.com in Florence, of course Peldi Guilizzoni from Balsamic in Bologna (I think), Luca Filigheddu in Sardegna (twimbow among other things).

And that's only those I know or heard of but there are for sure many many more...

Ask HN: Anyone in Rome interested in a Hacker News Meetup?

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