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Title:

My Ten Biggest Blunders: Adventures in Business

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Organizer:
Sam Michel, Chinwag
Description:
Midnight RAM raids, bailiff stand-offs, disappearing developers, spreadsheet snafus and cleaning-lady server outages. All real-life horrors from web veteran, Sam Michel. Join him on this humorous journey on the road to catharsis. Feel his pain, learn from his mistakes and indulge in some entrepreneurial group therapy.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What are the classic mistakes for a web business?
  2. What are the warning signs that things are going wrong?
  3. What when the faeces connects with the ventilation unit?
  4. Who can I trust in a tight spot?
  5. What can I learn from the dotcom bust of 2001?
  6. How do I deal with angry creditors?
  7. What steps should I take in an economic downturn?
  8. How do I keep my team motivated when all around me is crumbling?
  9. How do I pick up the pieces when it’s all gone wrong?
  10. What mistakes has everyone else made that I can learn from?
Level:
Intermediate
Category:
Business / Entrepreneurial
Type:
Solo
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Mark Evans
on 11/8/08
We need more entrepreneurs to expose their blunders, share stories of hardship and lessons learned. I look forward to this panel.
Sam Michel
on 15/8/08
Thanks Mark, I'm more than happy to share my blunders - it might be tough to choose only ten though. My best lessons have tended to come from the biggest goofs!
estepona property
on 12/5/09
Yeah definitely not the norm for successful entrepreneurs to reveal what they did wrong, yet they all did.

Refeshing chanel and a panel that will be greatly received. Thanks for laying your soul out!
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