Max Favilli

I didn't know.

I am exploring the space between why and why not.

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Start-up a company in Italy is such a damn stupid choice...

One could write an encyclopedia with the good reasons why it's stupid to start-up a company in Italy.

Steampunk cartoon of people jumping off a cliff assembling a biplane on the way down — Reid Hoffman quote, Starting a company is like jumping off a cliff and assembling the plane on the way down.

One could write an encyclopedia with the good reasons why it’s stupid to start-up a company in Italy.

The other day I was looking for a solution to manage outbound and inbound text messages aka SMS, there are plenty of good providers on the web, with nice simple API and a reasonable cost: nexmo.com, plivo.com, twilio.com… They operate in many countries: USA, UK, Germany, etc… Including places like Spain, Finland, Pakistan… I mean “Pakistan”… But not in Italy… Italy is really the third world for business, and the third world for IT… Christ…

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Handpicked from the discussion on Substack and LinkedIn. Lightly edited for length.

  1. Don't worry Max : France is competing as well on this area & will bypass Italy soon !! ;-(

    tmat

  2. Hi Thierry! Great pleasure to hear from you after so long!

    max.favilli

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