I was attending the Computer Science Department at the University of Pisa, when I met a person who was going to have a great importance in my life: Prof. Tonina Starita. I attended two of her courses at I decided that I wanted to do research in the artificial intelligence field with her. I took my degree with a thesis on an expert system for the neurological domain, and after I spent almost other four years in research in the neural networks, hybrid systems and data mining with her. She wanted me to take also my PhD, but we both understood I had entrepreneurship ambitions. We worked on a great number European Commission funded projects (among them CAMARC, WOMAN) involving different technologies (image processing, gait analysis, web ehealth services). When I announced her I was going to create a company of my own she supported and encouraged me. I am now an entrepreneur with two companies of my own. One, named Synspsis, is in the health information systems sector and the other, named DAXO, in pervasive and mobile computing, so both have been affected by my years of research with Prof. Starita, who became my friend Tonina during those years. We made research together but we had also fun together. Everybody who knows her, appreciated her wisdom, her creativity, her love for life and her love for the research. This article is for Tonina.