Things are moving very fast these days and they have taken a much faster pace as compared to the already dizzy speed they had in the last months. Many changes have occurred in my personal and professional life since the arrival of Daniele in the United States and the joint decision to share everything we [...]

Online marketing has really become a necessity and an obsession for many American entrepreneurs. Everywhere I go, to every meeting I participate, there is some slant toward promoting your business on the web, with a lot of tools and a lot of cool tricks. Yet one needs to adapt it to the classic activities that [...]

I have met many exceptional guys in my life, but I have met very few outstanding teams. In our world it seems like everybody is trying to become a superstar or a prima donna. This is true also of corporations. All those I have in contact with had all kinds of complex procedures and rituals [...]

Tomorrow I will have an important meeting with three people that will have a fundamental role in my future professional life. One of them is of course my business partner and friend Daniele, with whom I will be sharing all of my future endeavors in the US and in Europe; the second is Terry Ogburn, [...]

I am almost 50 years old and I know very well how it feels when you have built a career leveraging a whole lifetime of work and connections: it feels comfortable and it feels like that’s he only way it cam be. I have been fortunate or unfortunate enough to have built my whole previous [...]

Bandits! When I first read about bandit signs I couldn’t get an idea of what they were. Imagine a normal family, in Italy, that wants to get familiar on how you invest in real estate in the US and buys two dozen books, all from apparently reputable authors. And then this thing about bandits signs [...]

In every major travel you encounter people that lead you along the way and that walk the path with you guiding your steps on your new course. Sometimes they are perfect strangers that yet become your friends right away because they share your same immediate goal and destination. These are the type of people that [...]

Sometimes we can see the future but we have no “proof” of what we think is going to happen. When I decided to move from Italy to the US with my family, in the beginning of 2008, I also made the transition from a very successful computer journalist and editor to an entrepreneur dealing in [...]

You can’t begin a major life project by planning everything in advance, in all its detail, because life is never as organized as we would like it to be and we all live surrounded by other people who have emotions, desires, pains and ambitions. So when I arrived in the United States about one year [...]

We need to go back to July 2007 and shift all the way to Treviso, a splendid Italian town pretty close to Venice. Me and my wife, Maria, were traveling on a business trip. She had a small marketing company with a partner and I had taken a day off from my regular job as [...]