Is Italy ready for OpenCoffee?
Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Business, Italy, OpenCoffee
I guess most of you know of OpenCoffee and those who don’t should read the exhaustive post that started it all.
I have seen OpenCoffees prosperate all around Europe and America with the exception of Italy.
Are we ready for it? If so, why isn’t anyone doing anything? I’m pretty sure an OpenCoffee in Italy would be a wonderful thing, and every person I talk to thinks the same, yet no one is taking action to start anything.
There are similar initiatives, but they are not born with openness as one of the core principles.
If you’re wondering why I don’t start an OpenCoffee instead of whining about it on my blog, it’s because of my geographic position. I live deep in the South, where most people only go on Vacation and where no one would go for an OpenCoffee, so I guess I’m entitled to wish for someone in a better position to begin working on an Italian OpenCoffee 
I hope laziness it the only reason OpenCoffees are not being organized in Italy, instead of the usual trust-no-one approach we have to enterpreneurship, so I keep my fingers crossed waiting to see what will happen in the next few months.
As I keep telling people I work with, there’s no more time, we have to take action now, or stop thinking about it.
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Italy is not ready for this, because of out deep coffee culture… guess why there are so many Starbucks all over the world but there’s none in our country?
April 2nd, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Let’s start a Open Happy Hour then
April 3rd, 2007 at 12:29 am
Ciao Giovanni,
Italy is definitely not ready for hosting OpenCoffee events.
Even worst, having OpenCoffee events today is useless since there are no seed or early stage investors in Italy.
At an hypothetical Italian OpenCoffee would show up many blogger “celebrities”, a bunch of marketing guys, very few startups and no ventures. So what’s the purpose?
I’m going to demo Clipperz in London at the local OpenCoffee on April 19th. I won’t be easy, but it’s worth a try. Anyone interested in joining me for the trip?
Marco
Clipperz co-founder
April 3rd, 2007 at 1:18 am
Hi Marco and thanks for commenting on my post. What you said about the hypotethical Italian OpenCoffee is sadly true and is mostly a reflection of how things work in our country.
Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend the London OpenCoffee on April 19, but I wish you all the best with that.
April 24th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
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