Italian entrepreneur Marco Palladino is currently 22 years old – but he was only 19 when he first started looking for funding for his startup. For roughly 2 years, he and his cofounders met with every last investor on the Italian Peninsula and without any success.

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Still desperately looking for funding, the team arrived in Silicion Valley in January 2010. Augusto Marietti, one of Marco’s two co-founders (along with Michele Zonca) who is currently CEO of the startup, wrote out all the details of their quest for funding on the company blog; the team went to every last event in Silicon Valley, called every person they knew and asked around for help. But never in their wildest dreams did they think they would get funded in just 19 days.

In queste poche righe la storia della start-up Mashape, italianissima.
2 anni di delusioni in Italia per trovare finanziamenti; solo 19 giorni per poter ricominciare e gioire negli Stati Uniti.

L'ennesima riprova che tentare di innovare e investire in Italia è come tentare di vendere frigoriferi al polo nord.

D'altronde da noi... c'è "Gogol"...