{"id":10998,"date":"2018-06-29T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/article\/\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:23:00","slug":"thinker-meets-italian-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/thinker-meets-italian-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinker Ventures meets with Italian companies looking to grow in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5836 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thinker_logo-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thinker_logo-1.jpg 400w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thinker_logo-1-300x90.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thinker_logo-1-260x78.jpg 260w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thinker_logo-1-50x15.jpg 50w, https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/thinker_logo-1-150x45.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/>ROCKFORD, Illinois \u2014 Thinker Ventures, a business-development firm in downtown Rockford, met with six Italy-based companies that were in town Friday to discuss business expansion and collaboration opportunities in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Italian Trade Agency in Chicago organized the networking session at the Holiday Inn Rockford. Several other Rockford-area companies took part, including <a href=\"https:\/\/zethmayr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zethmayr<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thames-venture.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thames Management Resources<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.superiorjt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Superior Joining Technologies<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The companies that were seeking opportunities are ASTER, BLM Group USA, Clust-ER Meccatronica e Motoristica, Pirelli Tyre SpA, Politecnico di Milano and Tec Eurolab.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thinker helps companies launch and grow through marketing, branding, website development, media consulting, content management, executive coaching and managed information technology services. Thinker also hosts the weekly 1 Million Cups networking group, the annual Startup Weekend and the What Works Podcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">###<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information, contact Alex Gary at <\/span><a href=\"mailto:info@thinkerventures.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">info@thinkerventures.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROCKFORD, Illinois \u2014 Thinker Ventures, a business-development firm in downtown&hellip;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/thinker-meets-italian-companies\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thinkerventures.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}