Learning from startup hiccups with David Carter

When: Wednesday February 1st 2017 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Where: McMaster University – Room ETB 535 – 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton

Organizer: The Forge (@theforgehamont)

Register: eventbrite.ca/e/failing-forward-how-to-learn-and-grow-from-startup-hiccups-tickets-31418852634

Details:

There are many reasons why startups experience failure. To celebrate and learn from these inevitable “hiccups”, join The Forge@Mac and David Carter for Failing Forward: How to learn and grow from startup hiccups. David will outline how to fail well and use it to your advantage.

David Carter is the Executive Director of Innovation Factory (iF). iF is Hamilton’s Regional Innovation Centre with the mandate to be a catalyst for innovation in Hamilton. Appropriately, David’s career has been working in innovation since he joined the workforce. It started as a consultant in the burgeoning personal computer industry and then as an International Markets Analyst at the Toronto Stock Exchange in the late 80’s. At Microsoft he worked through the revolution in desktop computing and the internet in the 90s. In 2001, after 11 years at Microsoft he decided to start his own company. From 2001 until 2012 he and his partner took their start-up from a small office in Burlington, to a Boston based firm raising $20 million in venture capital. Carter is thrilled to support today’s entrepreneurs in Hamilton and to be a part of the larger Hamilton ecosystem.