2. Executive summary
Nebula - Why?
People have very few occasions to develop connections, receive advice and spark new ideas outside the
organizations they belong to. Nebula wants to create a hub for brilliant practitioners, students, startups, and
associations to expand their network, knowledge, and capabilities.
Nebula - What?
Nebula is a community of people with strong entrepreneurial spirit and several disparate skills, which meet in a co-
working space in order to:
• Meet new people and develop new strong connections
• Explore new trends
• Generate disruptive ideas
Just like in a nebula, where particles collide to create energy, Nebula makes talents collide, fostering the birth of
new ideas and activities.
Nebula - How?
Nebula meets participants’ needs handling four kinds of requests: career, new trends, business ideas, philanthropy.
We connects members of the community to match their inquiries.
Nebula - When?
Nebula meets every two weeks, on Saturday afternoon, in Milan
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3. The need we want to fill
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People have very few occasions to develop connections, receive advice,
and spark new ideas outside the organizations they belong to
Practitioners Students Associations Startups
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4. Our purpose
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Nebula wants to create a hub for brilliant practitioners, students, startups,
and associations to expand their network and knowledge
Practitioners Students
Associations Startups
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5. Hubble Space Telescope, 1995 - NASA and ESA
Our name
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Just like in a nebula, where particles collide to create energy, Nebula
makes talents collide, fostering the birth of new ideas and activities
The Pillars of Creation - Eagle Nebula
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6. Networking Disruptive ideasKnowledge sharing
What we do
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Nebula is a community of people with strong entrepreneurial spirit and
several disparate skills, meeting in a co-working space to perform three
main activities
Coworking space
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7. Start-up
Seed
Incubators
Venture capital funds / business angels
Growth
Time
Birth of the
organization
Idea
Networking
Positioning
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Pre-seed
Nebula focuses on ideas and projects before the seed phase; this creates
room for cooperation with incubators and other investors
Early growth
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8. Strategic areas
Cross-sectional competencies
FinanceStrategy
IT
Law
Comm. & Social
Media Mgmt
TaxAccounting
AnthropologyPhilosophy History PsicologyEngineering
Marketing
Sociology
Media
Green
Energy
Food &
Beverage
Tourism &
Hospitality
Digital
Fashion &
Luxury
Arts &
Edutainment
Life
Science
Different competencies
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Nebula engages a very broad and diversified community, embracing
competencies at different levels
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9. Thinker Guru
Talent
Entrepreneurial spirit
Experience in specific field
Commitment to Nebula
Talents contamination
Structure of Nebula Community
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Members can participate either as thinkers or gurus, according to their
level of experience and committment to Nebula
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10. New trend
Philanthropy ideas
Business ideas
Career
One to One
Open
• Information about a particular field/
organization/ role
• Curiosity for innovative trends
• Feedback for new philanthropic ideas
• Research of new profiles for the team
• Feedback for new business ideas
• Research of new profiles for the team
Different kinds of requests
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Members can submit four kinds of requests, concerning career needs,
curiosity for innovative trends, or support for associations and startups
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11. How requests are managed
Thinker has a new
request
Thinker is matched
with Guru
Thinker sends request
to Nebula team
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Once a member submits a request, it is matched by the team to a guru to
receive a suitable answer
New trend
Philanthropy ideas
Business ideas
Career
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12. Pilot phase
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In January 2016, we implemented a pilot phase in order to test Nebula
and collect feedbacks and suggestions
• 150 reached
• 80 involved
• Average attendance: 30 people
• 35 requests matched
• Research project by a PhD candidate to
improve the experience
• 4 associations presented projects and
returned to the community on a
constant basis
• 2 brainstorming sessions and
feedbacks from practitioners
• 18 meetings
• 2 happy hours
• 7 knowledge sharing sessions with
Gurus
• 2 focus groups on Nebula
• 5 startups and 2 webzines
involved
• 3 brainstorming sessions and
feedbacks from practitioners
• 1 new startup idea pitched
Events
Associations
Startups
People
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13. Nebula moments
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The pilot phase was successful in terms of variety of people involved and
requests managed
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14. After the pilot phase, Nebula will start a new season at the end of
October…
First meeting of
Nebula Community
and start of pilot
phase
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Timeline
June 2016
Pilot phase involvingabout 80
people and more than 10
startups and associationsin
Nebula team’s personal
network
January 2016
End of pilot phase
with happy hour
involvingabout 40
people In Santeria
Social Club
October 2016
Going public
through social
network and
online application
process
End of October
2016
Start of Nebula season
2016 - 2017 with
presentation of next
steps and networking
happy hour
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Next steps
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Team
Andrea Lisi Gabriele Messineo Luigi Maggio
Elisabetta Colaci Andrea Natali Simona Barbarossa
Co-Founder
Head of Philanthropy
Co-Founder
Head of Community
HR Manager Event Manager Marketing &
Communication Manager
Co-Founder
Head of Business
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