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Since the beginning of 2021, I moved to Substack. You can find all my writings here: An Innovator’s Sketchbook
A Non-Developer’s Thoughts for Software Developers: Don’t Work in a Vacuum (3/4)
I once worked with two developers who had the ability to completely lose contact with reality: they worked for several days sleeping just a couple of hours per night. They advocated this method, saying that deep concentration was the only way to tackle complex problems. They were brilliant engineers, but
A Non-Developer’s Thoughts for Software Developers: Remember to be Disciplined (2/4)
At Stamplay, we’ve been working together for more than 2 years and have experimented with many methods and tools to organize work, priorities, and keep track of what we do.
A Non-Developer’s Thoughts on Software Development and Productivity (1/4)
During the past 20 years I’ve regularly worked closely with programmers in various roles; as an analyst, UX designer, product manager, and a customer. Often, we worked together really well. Other times it was extremely frustrating. More than once, I quarrelled furiously with them…
Open Innovation and the 5 Pillars of a Startup Community
Open innovation and the 5 Pillars of a Startup Community from Nicola Mattina In a world, where every company has to become (more or less) a software company, it is necessary to promote the transition from closed innovation (R&D centers) and open innovation models (crowdsourcing portals) to innovation ecosystems
InnovactionLab 2014
InnovAction Lab is an association founded in 2011 that introduces Italian university students to the world of entrepreneurship and innovative startups. Laboratories are aimed at students with multidisciplinary academic backgrounds who, through a series of seminars and webinars, learn to evaluate the economic potential of an idea and present it
Stamplay wins Hy! Berlin and opens a public beta
It’s not every day that you go to an event that takes place inside a pool. Literally! But I guess that in Berlin is not so strange to be in places that once served another scope. So, why not use pools to organize events? Just keep them dry 😉 Everyone
Playing with Lego Mindstorms
This Christmas I asked my father to give me the Lego Mindstorms EV3, because I wanted to play a little ‘;-) Here are my first impressions. 1. In the pack there is a huge number of small pieces (601) divided into various envelopes. It would have been much better if
What an amazing year for Stamplay!
It’s been almost a year since we started working on the current version of Stamplay. At the beginning of 2012, we were working on a catalog of applications for online marketing and loyalty programs. One day we asked ourselves: what if, instead of developing many different apps, we invent a
Stamplay in a (very loooong) infographic 🙂
It is not easy to explain in a few words a B2B workflow automation PaaS. But, perhaps, we found the key to the problem. This is the result so far…
Stamplay wins the Facebook Hacknight in Rome
Last week, Stamplay won the hacknight organized by Facebook in collaboration with Ezecute and LUISS Enlabs in Rome. Among the mentors and the jury members: Luca Colombo, country manager in Italy, Daniele Bernardi, solution engineer, Andrea Lai, PMD program. During the night, the engineering team Stamplay (Giuliano, Alessandro, Mirko, Cristian