Rahul Sood – Microsoft
Super-Size Me
Congratulations! You’ve sold your startup, it’s going global, and it’s your job to help oversee a smooth transition. Your job is done, right? Or does the real work actually start now?
In this session Rahul Sood tells the story of starting a small, Canadian company; growing; and surviving the acquisition by a massive US Organization; and how he’s surviving as an entrepreneur in the world’s largest software company. He’ll share his experiences, epic failures, and invaluable insights gained in a candid discussion that every entrepreneur in search of an exit needs to hear.
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Margaret Dawson – HP Cloud Services
The Crooked Path to Success
We all know about choosing the road less traveled and taking the fast track. But the path to success is not always the fastest, the straightest or the newest. In fact, sometimes finding success involves a zigzag through life that only when looking back even resembles a path at all. And that is ok.
Join zigzagger and startup veteran Margaret Dawson, who has found business success and personal satisfaction through nontraditional routes. She’ll share what she has found to be the important criteria when making decisions, how to evaluate risk, and how to trust your gut and your logic at the same time, and, importantly, how to decide who to listen to (and who to ignore) when making work and life decisions
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The Luck You Make
This is a story about a career molded by the luck, and the moral of the story is simple : What you do with luck — good luck and bad –defines who you become as an entrepreneur, a founder, and a leader. Leading technology and product analyst, executive producer of the DEMO Conferences and co-founder of Guidewire Labs, Chris Shipley speaks candidly about her experiences.
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Fred Destin – Atlas Venture
Surviving Beyond Seed: Tales from The Trenches on Surviving Your First 24 Months
Most companies fail in their 24 months. Don’t join their ranks. In this no-BS discussion, much-loved seed investor Fred Destin delivers his battle-won list of the key mistakes startups make that kill them early on.
Filmed at the International Startup Festival 2013 in Montr�al
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Danae Ringelmann – indiegogo
From Founding to Future: Building What Matters
Danae Ringelmann, Co-Founder and Chief Happiness Officer of Indiegogo, the largest global crowdfunding platform, will touch upon how the passion and dedication to solving a problem lead to the birth of Indiegogo and crowdfunding as we know it today. With an emphasis on the importance of building a company for scalability in a changing landscape and how she envisions the future of crowdfunding.
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Published on Aug 26, 2013
How to Beat the Series A Crunch. Why Internet marketing Matters (a lot)
How to Beat the Series A Crunch. Why Internet marketing Matters (a lot) – Why everything sucks, why breakthrough innovation is over-rated, and why analytically-driven internet marketing is the most critical skillset in beating the Series A Crunch.
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Entrepreneurship is the Shovel You Use to Dig a Path to a Brighter Future
Entrepreneurship isn’t a goal—it’s a means to an end. It’s the tool with which we bend the world to our vision. The greatest founders are driven by more than merely a payday: they want to create a better life, both for themselves and for others.
Join serial Entrepreneur and innovator Jeff Hoffman—founding member and CEO in numerous startups, including Priceline.com, uBid.com, and ColorJar—and entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist and author, Ruma Bose, for a look at the higher purpose that drives the best founders and delivers true success for a look at the higher purpose that drives the best founders and delivers true success.
Filmed at the International Startup Festival 2013 in Montréal
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The Luck You Make
This is a story about a career molded by the luck, and the moral of the story is simple : What you do with luck — good luck and bad –defines who you become as an entrepreneur, a founder, and a leader. Leading technology and product analyst, executive producer of the DEMO Conferences and co-founder of Guidewire Labs, Chris Shipley speaks candidly about her experiences.
Filmed at the International Startup Festival 2013 in Montréal
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