We-Sport

We-Sport
Founded Turin, Italy (September, 2009)
Headquarters Turin, Italy
Founder(s) Marco Ivaldi
Marco Iacuaniello
Aurelian Vacariuc
Industry Internet
Slogan(s) We do it together
Always be active
You’ll be never alone!
Website we-sport.com
Alexa rank Increase 689,685 (January 2015)[1]
Type of site Social networking service
Registration Free, Required
Available in English language, Italian language
Launched October 2009
Current status Active

We-Sport is a vertical social network that connects athletes and sport professional profile. Founded in 2009 as a spin-off at Motor Science Research Center of SUISM[2][3][4][5] of University of Turin. It is a network that allow to organize meetings and training sessions[6][7] of several sports (there are more that 400 sports registered), to share photos and videos and to find sport facilities.[8]

History

We-Sport was created in May 2009 in Turin by Marco Ivaldi, Marco Iacuaniello and Aurelian Vacariuc. It is permanently available in beta version from November 2009 and in normal version from July 2011. In June 2012 We-Sport has been included in the dossier for candidature[9] of Turin 2015[10] as European Capital of Sport and it also available on the City of Turin[11] website.[12][13] From November 2013 is available an app for Android devices. We-Sport has been financed by Parmalat through the project Milk&Smile[14] in 2010, in the 2013 and in the 2014 through a project of sport advices.

We-Sport has won several awards and it has also analyzed by studies of social network analysis.[15][16][17][18][19]

Awards

- 3rd place adward "ASI IL GIOCO DEL LOTTO – Sport&Cultura" (September 2014)[20]
- Adward winner “Etica e Sport” at 3rd edition “Rinaldo Bontempi e Maurizio Laudi” (December 2012)[21][22]
- Finalist project at Italian Ventures forum (November, 2011)
- Finalist project at Faber Meeting 2011 (November, 2011)[23]
- Award winner “Startupbusiness” at SMAU 2011 Innovation Project (October, 2011)[24][25][26][27]
- Semi-finalist project at Eurecan European Venture Contest (November, 2010)
- Finalist project at Mind The Bridge Venture Camp (November, 2010)[28][29]
- Winner project at Torino Internazionale (March, 2010)
- Winner project at I3P for tutoring and business plan construction (January, 2010)
- Winner project at I Realize Start-Up Hack (November, 2009)[30][31][32]
- Winner project at the Management Game in the International Contest for Innovative Sports Management, Amsterdam (September 12–16, 2009)

References

  1. ↑ "We-Sport.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
  2. ↑ Rossi, Andrea (February 10, 2010). "L'ateneo torinese inventa il Facebook degli sportivi". La Stampa (Torino).
  3. ↑ "Nasce il social network We-Sport della SUISM". Regione Piemonte.
  4. ↑ Rizzato, Stefano (September 21, 2011). "Metti la ricerca in vetrina per una sera". La Stampa (Torino).
  5. ↑ "Nasce We-Sport, il social network degli sportivi".
  6. ↑ "Le start up della community di Wind Business Factor".
  7. ↑ "We-Sport il social network per gli amanti dello sport".
  8. ↑ "We-Sport, il social network degli sportivi".
  9. ↑ "Turin’s candidature".
  10. ↑ "Torino2015".
  11. ↑ "City of Turin".
  12. ↑ Clavarino, Tomaso (June 8, 2012). "Nasce il social network che fa incontrare gli sportivi". La Repubblica (Torino).
  13. ↑ "Nasce We-Sport.com, il social network degli sportivi piemontesi".
  14. ↑ "Parmalat, è on line Milk&Smile". FOOD. June 30, 2011.
  15. ↑ Ivaldi, M.; Ferreri, L.; Daolio, F.; Giacobini, M.; Tommasini, M.; Rainoldi, A., We-Sport: from academic spin-off to data-base for complex network analysis; an innovative approach to a new technology, J Sports Med and Phys Fitness, pp. Vol. 51– Suppl. 1 to issue No. 3
  16. ↑ Ferreri, L.; Ivaldi, M.; Daolio, F.; Giacobini, M.; Tommasini, M.; Rainoldi, A. (August 12, 2011), A network approach to investigate the aggregation phenomena in sports
  17. ↑ Ivaldi, M.; Ferreri, L.; Daolio, F.; Giacobini, M.; Tommasini, M.; Rainoldi, A. (2011), We-Sport: from academic spin-off to data-base for complex network analysis; an innovative approach to a new technology, The Journal Of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness (ISSN:1827-1928), pp. 53–55
  18. ↑ Ferreri, L.; Ivaldi, M.; Giacobini, M. (June 22, 2012), Tripartite Networks: a first exploratory step towards the understanding of multipartite networks, Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
  19. ↑ Ferreri, L.; Ivaldi, M.; Daolio, F.; Giacobini, M.; Rainoldi, A.; Tomassini, M., Sport, how people choose it: A network analysis approach, European Journal of Sport Science, DOI:10.1080/17461391.2014.960007
  20. ↑ "ASI IL GIOCO DEL LOTTO – Sport&Cultura".
  21. ↑ Gentile, Raffaela (December 12, 2012). "Etica e Sport, un premio per la buona pratica". TorinoClick.
  22. ↑ "Un premio a Etica e Sport".
  23. ↑ "Faber meeting".
  24. ↑ Rocchi, Federico (April 1, 2011). "Smau, dalle mosse tablet di Microsoft al toilet advertising di Bulsara". Il Messaggero (Torino).
  25. ↑ "Smau premia le idee geniali italiane". Zeroventiquattro.it. 2011.
  26. ↑ "We-Sport, il social che mette insieme gli sportivi". Zeroventiquattro.it. 2011.
  27. ↑ "We sport, il social per il mondo sportivo, vince il premio Innovazione". Zipnews. December 15, 2011.
  28. ↑ Castelli, Luca (June 10, 2010). "Cinque start up italiane a lezione di Silicon Valley". La Stampa.
  29. ↑ "Mind the Bridge".
  30. ↑ "We-Sport: Il Social Network degli Sportivi".
  31. ↑ "Nasce We-Sport®, il Social Network della SUISM".
  32. ↑ "I realize start-up hack: come trasformare tesi universitarie in business plan".

External links

- Official website
- Alexa ranking
- Crunch base
- SUISM