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FAILCamp Waterloo

Monday, November 16, 2009 at VeloCity — Mobile+Media Incubator

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failure can be intrinsically valuable
The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity. Such knowledge is a true gift, for all that it is painfully won, and it has been worth more to me than any qualification I ever earned.
J.K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Speech

Here’s a quick description of the event, modified from the original written by its Philadelphia FAILcamp originators, Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs:

We believe that it’s time to give our personal fail some tough love and talk it out!

Join us for a brief, rousing introduction followed by camaraderie, and show-and-tell. We’ll present a little about failure through the ages, mining your personal suck, maybe some science, pithy quotes from people you may or may not respect, and share some failure stories of our own.

Then it’ll be your turn. If all goes to plan, you may even win in our friendly “race to the bottom” for the most public, most expensive, or most ridiculous Story of Fail.

Practically speaking - the week of Nov 16th is Entrepreneur Week in Waterloo and every entrepreneur worth their salt has suffered some failures - time to celebrate them! This event is being organized by Joseph Fung and Jesse Rodgers