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9% are incorporated abroad

US (CA, DE, MA) & UK

Is there a “Corporate drain”?

  • He/She is 32
  • 87% is male
  • He/She works in team (2/3 founders + 3/4 employees)
  • 90% holds a Bachelor’s degree
  • 25% holds a Ph.D. or MBA
  • 20% gets it abroad (US, UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland)

Prior Work experience

  • 80% has a 6/7 years avg. prior working experience
  • 33% of them abroad

Prior Entrepreneurial experience

  • 21% has founded at least one company before
  • “Top 15”: serial entrepreneurs are 35% (40% of them abroad)

Research/Academic experience

  • 18% has previously worked in Universities or Research Centers
  • 30% registered at least one patent
  • It is clear that we are ready to graduate to the major league
  • What does it take now to make it happen?
  • We need to maintain high standards of startups representing us and constant volumes
  • 2 words: quality and quantity. We need both

Who's the Italian Startupper?

Italian Startups: What and Where

We mostly learn entrepreneurship by doing

Best entrepreneurs have

a higher propensity to roam

“Startups in Italy - Facts and Trends”

Mind the Bridge Survey 2011

Alberto Onetti - Chairman, Mind the Bridge Foundation

Italian Startup Population

  • 800/1,000 new startups/year

Universities are the real startups magnets

Survey size:

  • 100+ startups
  • 300+ entrepreneurs

Talking $$$

Wrapping up

$100k is the average capital invested per startup

Bootstrapping is the most common source of funding (40%)

23% are also funded by external investors

  • Seed financing (15%)
  • Business angels (4%)
  • Venture capital (4%)
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