Oct 10

3 Lessons Learned From FailCon – Failcon San Francisco – Oct 22

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FailCon is a one-day conference for 500+ technology entrepreneurs, investors, developers and designers to study their failures and prepare for success.  As an entrepreneur, you will inevitably encounter failure; it is overcoming it that is the biggest challenge.

At FailCon, we help you do just that. At intimate, relevant, and personal sessions, you’ll join founders and partners from Gina Bianchini, Chip Conley, Ben Huh, Cindy Alvarez, Scott Berkun, Sean Ellis, Danielle Morrill and more as they share advice on how to overcome failure and reach success.  For more information, check out http://thefailcon.com.

Failcon will be held in San Francisco on October 22, Ubergizmo readers get 15% off the registration fee, click here to register with the discount.

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Sep 26

Startup Conference FailCon Succeeds On Failure

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In the startup world, everyone knows that making mistakes and learning from them is critical to success. Failure, however, is rarely the topic of conversation at startup events, especially here in France. If we have so much to learn from our failures, why aren’t we talking more about them?

That’s exactly what the FailCon producers realized in 2009. Tired of hearing successful entrepreneurs endlessly share how they built great companies (but never about mistakes made along the way), they launched FailCon, where technology founders and investors discuss their failures to prepare for success.

Contrary to the conference’s theme, FailCon has NOT failed; it reaches half a dozen countries around the world, including Germany, Singapore, Australia, and Brazil, and has featured hundreds of industry leaders sharing personal mistakes made and lessons learned.

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