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    Justice as a Service: the fastest way to earn 600€

    Today I have earned 600€. It only took me about 5 minutes and it was completely legal. It is on propose that this claim sounds like the typical click-bait. The dream of…

    August 7, 2016 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Mobile, Product Management

    My first week with Wit.ai Bot Engine

    More than one year has passed since Facebook announced the purchase of the startup Wit.ai showing the world its interest in understanding the human language. In these 15 months many improvements have been introduced…

    April 25, 2016 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Business & Markets, Robots & Dinosaurs

    Smart car security is not about road, is about hackers

    Now that the eternal promise of the dawn of the Internet of Things has finally been kept, it is time to start thinking about how to deal with the security issue. Security issue,…

    February 1, 2015 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Product Management

    How to introduce the Tenth Man rule in your organization

    “The interesting thing about being CEO that’s really striking is that you have very few decisions that you need to make, and you need to make them absolutely perfectly”. These are the…

    May 11, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Product Management

    The F-35 Fighter is a huge Product Management mistake

    Lack of feature prioritization, contrasting project goals, toxic procurement management, extreme redundancies. These and many other problems marked the way of the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. More than $391 billions (and counting!) for a…

    May 4, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Product Management

    F-35 fails part 2. Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize!

    The F-35 Fighter fails saga The F-35 Fighter is a huge Product Management mistake Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize! How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? Chinese do it better…

    May 4, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Product Management

    F-35 fails part 3. How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb?

    The F-35 Fighter fails saga The F-35 Fighter is a huge Product Management mistake Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize! How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? Chinese do it better…

    May 4, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Product Management

    F-35 fails part 4. Chinese do it better

    The F-35 Fighter fails saga The F-35 Fighter is a huge Product Management mistake Prioritize, prioritize, prioritize! How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? Chinese do it better…

    May 4, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Business & Markets

    This year Starbuck’s coffee will taste worse than ever

    It was hard to realize that I have named my blog after the world’s favourite stimulating beverage and still I haven’t written anything about coffee. People depend on coffee, rely on coffee,…

    February 28, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Business & Markets

    Case Study – How does Spotify pay artists

    Lately I have been following several conversation about online piracy and legal alternatives for streaming music. They all seemed to point out that the only way to reestablish some profit for the…

    February 18, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Product Management

    The Italian Way – A story about Project Management

    This article has been previously published in the Spanish Project Management magazine “Proiectus”. If you speak Spanish and are curious about it you can find the original article here: Proiectus Issue nº1 We…

    February 16, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
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    Blog, Creative Solutions, Product Management

    Get ready to launch the first outer space concert

    Ever wondered how to manage a complex project involving a spaceship and one of the most famous star of the scene? Follow me through the path to the stars. It shouldn’t be…

    January 27, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Robots & Dinosaurs

    How working in Spain helped my professional growth

    I accidentally discovered this post talking about the 20 reasons why you should go to Spain. Most of them are related to incredibly awesome beaches, unique gastronomy and tremendous parties. And on…

    January 21, 2014 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Robots & Dinosaurs

    A (short) journey to the center of the Earth

    If anyone has seen lately the remake of Total Recall, they will absolutely remember the sophisticated mechanism to travel from the UK to Australia (and the tri-boobed mutant, of course). The travelling…

    September 11, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Business & Markets

    How to be a business angel with just a few bucks

    When talking about business, it is a common operation to classify people in two main categories: people with a natural talent for entrepreneurship and people born to be venture capitalists. Of course…

    September 10, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Creative Solutions

    Noise-cancelling boats for defeating seasickness

    Back in the days when the old Robocop was a hit and Justin Bieber wasn’t born yet, I used to spend my summers with my parents’ little boat. Everything was great, except…

    September 9, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
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    News Games, play into the real world news

    I am a huge fan of Civilization V, possibly the best game out there where you rise a glorious empire and guide it with wisdom during the centuries. After playing it for…

    September 8, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Product Management

    ET3: Get ready to travel faster than a bullet

    When I was doing the math, I almost didn’t believe it. There are people out there studying how to make you travel faster than a bullet. Better said, make you be the…

    July 28, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Product Management

    Airport check-in revolution: a plastic sleeve and a printed bar code

    I usually fly a lot. And since the introduction of low cost companies a lot of people pretty much do the same. I also enjoy flying, I even like that little stress when…

    July 25, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
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    The raise of PIY: Print It Yourself

    If you would see your father suspiciously bustling about dangerous things in the chimney, won’t you be alarmed? Me not, because I know that my dad is the Italian version of Mc…

    July 23, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Business & Markets

    You say it best, when you say nothing at all

    It’s amazing how you can speak right to my heart. Ok, you don’t want to hear me singing. You really don’t want to. So why am I quoting Ronan Keating with apparently…

    July 22, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Product Management

    Weather forecasts: the less we know the better we live

    While waiting in the Lufthansa check-in this morning, I was having this incredibly deep lecture about the Accuweather weather predictions tools (which are the same of every other weather service) and why they…

    July 21, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Robots & Dinosaurs

    If you have to fail, do it like a Champagne Supernova

    At the end of this post you will find a youtube video. If you’re in a hurry scroll down and watch it now. It deserves to be seen. Either if you have…

    July 4, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
  • Blog, Creative Solutions

    Killing piracy with irony

    This story is about a game developer and a huge problem. It starts with some creativity and hopefully ends with a lot of free marketing and good product placement. The main character…

    June 30, 2013 by Davide Mazzanti
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