Learn from others' failures- Last meet up for 2016

What Went Wrong encourages early and repeated failure as an invaluable process of managing risk and validating knowledge.

Listen as seasoned entrepreneurs of businesses of all sizes share stories of the experiments, mistakes and gambles that didn't work out — and how it gave them the answers they needed to achieve success.

Talks start at 6:30pm.

Please make sure to RSVP so we can cater for everyone.

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Speakers:

Aidan Lister, former onesie mogul, talks about growing a company from zero to 3 million dollars in sales over 24 months, and why it might have been a bad thing. His autopsy includes why running a business from the back of a van is a leading cause of hair loss, founder chemistry and why it's important to understand your business partners decision making process, and how poor mental models for risk can cost you everything.

Dr Grace Lai is founder and Managing Partner of Be Your Own Pty Ltd, a group of software and service companies that invest and develop technologies for the sustainable future of personalized, curated healthcare;Periop Partners, which provides technology and services to health practices to deliver seamless and efficient healthcare; and Global Goddess Project Pty Ltd, a social enterprise dedicate to the community support of women for personal and professional development in the areas of Thought Movement and Food. These three businesses have caused a lot of pain and joy, with many failures and lessons learned along the way to make her a stronger founder.

Ebony Greaves - Entrepreneur, Environmental Philanthropist and Co-Founder of Raw Kaya Organics, shares her war start-up stories of how sleep deprivation and poor quality assurance processes can unhinge absolutely everything including ones sanity. She will also talk about the common misconception that stress and pain is a bad thing. She'll share how viewing stress this way can lead to a weaker mental state, increased risk of physical ailments, and ultimately end with failure without having learnt anything.

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(Psst....Know someone who would like to share their learnings from failures? Send us a message as we're building up our speakers list for 2017.)