Keep the income
The venture is built around the job rather than instead of it. Registration, the first customer and the funding application all happen while the salary continues.
SOPRAVVIVENZA™ · 7 minutes
Survival Assessment
Scores the combination of founder, venture and place across twelve variables and names the weak ones.
Engine · SOPRAVVIVENZA™
Survival Assessment
How much relevant experience do you hold?
Prior business ownership or substantial time working in the sector you are entering.
How comfortable are you with cash and numbers?
The distinction between profit and cash is the one that determines survival.
What network do you have in the territory?
Local relationships are the difference between a business with suppliers and one with allies.
How long can you live without income from this?
The establishment period runs longer than planned in almost every case.
How is your Italian, and any guest languages?
Administrative Italian is a separate register from conversational Italian.
How many independent revenue lines will the venture have?
Weather removes the harvest, a bad season removes the visitors, a policy change removes the contract.
How adequate is your capital against the plan?
Adequacy is measured against the cash trough, not against the build cost.
How long until the first paying customer?
Fast revenue alongside a slow flagship is the most reliable protection against the second-year cliff.
How heavy is the regulatory load?
The authorisations are the easy part; the continuing compliance is the work.
How strong is the demand signal where you would build?
Evidence that someone is already paying for something similar, rather than reasoning that they should.
How deep is the instrument set in that territory?
Southern, inner-area and marginal-municipality classifications all deepen it substantially.
How is the connectivity and access?
For accommodation and any digital venture, connectivity is not a convenience but a precondition.
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Generates the complete operational task set for your chosen venture, sequenced with dependencies.
Cash Trough Model
Projects the month-by-month cash position and locates the trough before you reach it.
Repayment Simulator
Tests a debt schedule against a realistic revenue ramp and seasonal pattern.
Territory Matcher
Ranks regions against your chosen venture, your archetype and the instruments you can reach.
Note on sources. This page is generated from the VentureItalica research registry. Figures and legal references reflect the corpus as verified at the last review and are indicative rather than advice. Instruments change; always confirm the current call text with the administering body before acting.
The journey
Where this sits in the sequence
Applications precede expenditure, guarantees precede loans, and the venture is chosen before the property. The order is what protects the money.
P0
Orientation
Establishing who you are, what you hold, and what is therefore within reach.
P1
Selection
Choosing the venture, the place and the legal form, in that order and on evidence.
P2
Formation
Bringing the enterprise into legal existence so that instruments become reachable.
P3
Capitalisation
Assembling the stack in the correct sequence so that each layer supports the next.
P4
Preparation
Building the operational capability the venture will need on its first trading day.
P5
First Revenue
The first paying customer, and the systems that make the second one repeatable.
P6
Consolidation
Reaching the point where trading covers costs and the second revenue leg is established.
P7
Expansion
Growing beyond the founder's own capacity, into export, employment or collective structures.
Work it out
Engines that answer this for your own position
Each runs entirely in your own browser. Nothing is submitted, nothing is committed, and nothing leaves the page until you choose to save it.
Engine
Eligibility Assessment
Establishes which instruments, ventures and territories are actually open to you before any commitment is made.
Engine
Capital Stack Builder
Assembles and sequences your funding layers so that no eligible money is forfeited to a procedural error.
Engine
Venture Finder
Filters the full atlas against your capital, skills, land position and time to first revenue.
Engine
Readiness Checklist
Generates the complete operational task set for your chosen venture, sequenced with dependencies.
Engine
Survival Assessment
Scores the combination of founder, venture and place across twelve variables and names the weak ones.
Engine
Cash Trough Model
Projects the month-by-month cash position and locates the trough before you reach it.
From employed to owner
You do not have to resign to begin
The most common route onto this platform starts with a job, a skill and an evening. Ownership is the destination, not the entry requirement.
Prove the demand
First revenue arrives alongside the salary. The question stops being whether people want it and becomes how much they pay and how often.
Shift the balance
Hours move across as the venture earns. Reducing to part-time employment is a supported route, not a failure of nerve.
The business carries you
The venture covers the household and begins repaying its capital. Employment becomes a choice rather than a necessity.
Knowledge modules
Questions behind this engine
Each of the five hundred modules is written to be read on its own, without the page around it.
5
How much public money is actually available to a rural founder in Italy?
7
What is the single most common reason a funded rural venture still fails?
18
Why do young Italians leave rural areas, and what would bring them back?
21
What are the eight core objects the platform is built on?
23
Why does the platform predict survival rather than simply approving applications?
26
What is the "second-year cliff" and how is it survived?
58
What personal qualities actually predict success in rural enterprise?
66
How much does the choice of venture depend on the region?
Method
How to read the figures on this page
Everything published here is generated from the research corpus rather than written into the page, so a correction reaches every page that depended on it.
Traceable to a source
Every figure resolves to a named document in the corpus of 47 research files, and every judgement is marked as a judgement rather than dressed as data.
Ranges, not projections
Venture economics are modelled ranges drawn from comparable operations. They describe what this kind of business tends to do, not what yours will do.
Confirm against the call
Ceilings, rates and deadlines change and vary by region. Always confirm against the current call text of the administering body before committing anything.
Not advice
This is decision-support material. It is not legal, tax or financial advice, and using it creates no relationship of professional advice.
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