Today, sitting in Ann Arbor, Michigan and realizing Firenze is over, is a bit hard to digest for me, no more group meetings in Ross School of business, and looks like a thing of the past. But memories which I gathered from this whole journey of Firenze...

From the last 20 students (All university champions) who were flown to Seattle for competing (and collaborating) with each other over this wkend of Mar 20 th & 21 st . As with all great innovations which is done in periods of crisis, several curveballs...

Seth "blueshoes" Thomas, taking over the graphic designer role that Emily Kent played for the first half of Firenze 2010 came up with the design for the US$20K check that will be given to the winning team on Sunday Mar 21st. As is obvious the check...

Blogging at 330AM is a sure sign of Jet lag or insomnia. In my case a bit of both as I return from a 3 day trip to india - which as anyone knows is a 20-23 hr journey atleast including transit time from the westcoast through europe. In other words when...

Took a while to upload but here is the NYU Finals Photostream On Left is the team that won the finals at NYU and is being flown to Seattle for competing with the other universities.

The photostream from the finals at Cornell University.

Team Exclaim: FIRST PLACE Jiandong "Tony" Hu Shweta Grampurohit Pallavi Damera Graham Siebe Team Lifestream (not pictured): SECOND PLACE Stephen Minarsch Shalina Sheikh Bajracharya...

Pavan was the university lead/contact for running Firenze|BXT at michigan and here is his photostream

A picture is worth a 1000 words - what is a photostream worth? Here is Tyler's essay on how the Firenze Finals went at Carnegie Mellon. Leveraging videoconferencing from the CMU's tepper School, here is Tyler in vintage Firenze merchandise circa 2008...

And so remain the Last 20. 4 Students across each of the 5 universities are partying the night as I type this knowing that they are Firenze|BXT 2010 university winners, prepping for their final showdown at Seattle (and Redmond) in 9 days. These...

Midway through Firenze, I had the good fortunate and terrible flight schedules to accompany Creative DIrector David Wykes and Executive Producers Georg Petshnigg and Paolo Malabuyo at Michigan/Carnegie Mellon, Cornell/NYU and UW respectively. The innovation...