It’s about logic,
problem-solving
and creativity.
You are always trying to improve as a professional: in a big company, in a startup. But at some point in spite of success, big ideas and economic stability, you can’t answer that simple question “why?”. Why am I doing this? What is my real purpose?
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My son was twelve-years-old when he first told me he wanted to learn to code, it was something very special for me to know he was interested in technology because it has always been my passion in life.
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After almost a year of trying to get a publisher, we arrived at the point where we were like “right, if we don’t get a publisher this month, we’re going to have to go back to our old jobs”, and that was the moment we finally got picked up and received the product funding.
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In the digital age, coding is basic literacy, and kids need to understand the technology they are using every day. So why not try and make a difference, let’s teach kids to code and make an impact on closing the gap in scientific education.
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Learning to code is not linear: you shouldn’t give too much space to immediate successes nor get intimidated by quick failures. In the long run, you will be better. Just keep practicing and learning.
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“It’s time to do this. I’m going to quit my job.” I still remember those words my sister Benedetta said as we sat around our big kitchen table on that Christmas night. I remember it so clearly because that was the moment when this all started, when Meracinque was born.
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I had a very good position in Oracle, and it is a great company, and we had a great time. It was a very safe and secure job and so why did I quit my job to build a software that manages pigs?
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Making sustainability a viable and financially sustainable business practice is vital for businesses to realize their full potential. It’s about finding innovative business models where sustainability is an integrated part of the business.
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We strongly believe that entrepreneurs in the agrifood tech sector building innovative solutions from farm to fork are the ones that hold the solutions to these challenges in their hands. However, they can’t do it alone. They need funding and they need the right partners to grow.
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When you are a young girl with Chinese origins growing up in a small city in Italy, it’s not simple finding your identity. You speak the language of your surrounding community, but you are not quite the same as everyone else.
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Using data to understand and validate user behaviour patterns helps the teams design more effective experiences.
When I think about it now, I realize that I wanted a new challenge, I needed to put myself in a place where I would feel uncomfortable so that I could learn and reinvent myself. So I just did it, quit my job at Hulu and moved to Copenhagen from Los Angeles.
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My story is very similar to many other graduates in Italy. You are twenty five years old, you get a degree in Architecture, making your parents proud, of course. And then you have to leave in search of your future job.
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Often, companies see design as a superficial aspect, and, as designers, we need to change this perception. In Spain, for example, there is just not enough company culture around design. We need to show them that design has very concrete benefits on their business.
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I immersed myself into the startup community during a moment in my life when I was searching for connection and purpose in my work. I was so inspired by the community’s ‘get-up-and-go’ attitude and their sense of creativity and collaboration.
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Voice interactions are the most antique form of communication, it is also what separates humans from animals, and objects, up until now anyway. Technology is giving everyday household items a voice.
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Six months ago, I started to think about my professional journey, and I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was missing. This Bootcamp arrived exactly when I needed it, it was the perfect next step for my career and going abroad was something I wanted to do so I could grow as a person.
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Innovation is the primary mechanism for companies to grow and to create a sustainable competitive advantage. But a fundamental ingredient to bring a culture of innovation into a company is to make sure that everyone is speaking the same language.
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Innovation Garden is the group-wide intrapreneurship program of Raiffeisen Bank International AG in which employees can work together in a startup-like atmosphere and this year we are in Talent Garden Vienna.
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Designing a corporate innovation program together with a partner means just as much discovery as it does execution. And when TIM, the most prominent Italian telecommunications company, asked Talent Garden to help create a tech community we were excited.
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I think you have to be very flexible as an entrepreneur. You have to be open to change and new possibilities, you have to see the environment, the regulations and limits and adapt to them.
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In the past twenty years as the digital revolution has disrupted the way we do business, in Italy, we’ve seen a number of small and medium businesses struggling to keep up with innovation. Some of them succeeded, and others failed.
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Talking about challenges: how do you turn a group of people, a Country, into a team, moving forward as one unit, while doubling the team members and opening three new campuses. Well, this was an incredible year for Talent Garden Italy.
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2019 was a big year for the Nordic startup scene. Over €134 million was invested in Denmark-based startups alone, and we are proud to be a base for some of those startups and being able to support them along their journey.
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2019 was a year full of surprises for Talent Garden Vienna. It took quite a while until we found the right location, but finally we were successful and at the end of March the big moment had arrived: we celebrated our grand opening together with hundreds of people.
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I heard about Talent Garden before joining, and I related to their vision immediately. The claim: “The place for explorers and innovators” caught my eye in a second. I remember wondering when it would arrive here in Madrid.
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We have had a fantastic year at Talent Garden Dublin! We officially opened our campus in October 2018 and, like all first years of a business, there have been challenges along the way. That really brought us together as a team to build something really unique in Glasnevin.
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I’m originally from Rome, even if I ran away from this city almost 40 years ago, not because I did not like it, but because I was looking for opportunities that at the time I just could not find there.
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365 days
of Talent Garden
Ireland Welcomes its first VC in Residenc Programme.
Intel unveils AI Incubator at Talent Garden Dublin.
Innovation Report 2018
Our CEO Davide Dattoli is named in Forbes 30 Under 30 In Technology 2019.
Minister of State at the Department of Finance and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, Micheal D'Arcy TD opens the Appetite for Disruption International Blockchain event.
SingularityU Spain Summit Powered by Talent Garden
The opening of the first Talent Garden Innovation School in the Nordics.
44€ million capital increase to accelerate our expansion.
Grand opening Talent Garden Vienna with Austrian Minister of Digital and Economic Affairs Margarete Schramböck.
Donatella Versace explores innovation in Talent Garden Calabiana.
Talent Garden welcomes Tommy Ahlers, Danish Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Higher Education.
SingularityU Italy Executive Program.
Creating the Dragons of Game of Thrones.
#SomosMá
Awards Ceremony with Minister for Home Affairs, Fernando Grande-Marlaska and Minister for Justice, Dolores Delgrado.
Digital Entrepreneurship Summer Program 2019
Hack For The Future and Talent Garden Innovation School Graduation Show.
Grand opening Talent Garden Isola.
SingularityU Italy Summit
Launch of PMI Digital Lab supporting SMEs with digital transformation.
Grand opening Talent Garden Ostiense.
Touch Tech-Robotics & AI.
The first Bootcamps for the Talent Garden Innovation School in Vienna and Madrid started with 58 students.
Exponential Finance Summit.
Grand opening Talent Garden Vilnius.