The SNAP Summit: FailCon is Almost Here!

By Julie Blaustein

Past Panelists Robert Scoble, Nick O’Neill, Justin Smith and Dan Farber

SNAP Summit: FailCon on Tuesday, October 27th. at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco focuses on the Start up failures and the lessons gained. Failures in the start up world are worn with a badge of honor and at this conference you will learn lessons learned from some of the most highly esteemed entrepreneurs around including:

• Max Levchin; CEO, Slide Inc.
• Lynne Johnson; Recently Senior Editor, Fast Company
• Mark Pinkus; CEO, Zynga
• Seth Sternberg; CEO, Meebo
• Sandy Jen; CTO, Meebo
• Christine Herron; Partner, First Round Capital
• Adeo Ressi; Founder, TheFunded.com
• David Hornik; Partner, August Capital
• Jonathan Teo; Partner, Baseline Ventures
• Brandon Schauer; Experience Design Director, Adaptive Path
• Diana Benedikt; Strategist, Venture Insight
• Dave McClure; Master, 500hats.com
• Max Ventilla; Zoo Director, Aardvark
• Scott Rafer; CEO, Lookery
• Lane Becker; CEO, GetSatisfaction
• And More!

Discussions will include:

•    “Social Web Branding Failures:” how major brand have messed up on the social web, and what techniques should be avoided.
•    “The Future of Failure” from Lane Becker and Thor Muller, founders of GetSatisfaction
•    “How NOT To Build Socially,” featuring the founders of Context Optional, LOLapps, Appssavvy discussing why viral apps don’t always work.
•    “Learning by Doing” with Mark Pincus, founder of Zynga, discussing his experience founding the less popular social network Tribe.net
•    “How Investors Handle Failure,” featuring lead investors Ron Conway, Paul Graham, and David Hornik discussing what they do when their investments fail.
•    “Making and Breaking a Product,” sharing what happens when a good company launches a bad product; how the recover their losses and move on.

You can also check out who will be at the conference. What would a conference be without networking!

There will be Treats for attending the SNAP Summit: FailCon Conference!!!

*Special 15% Discount for Bub.blicio.us readers!

*Demo companies have a chance of winning $1k worth of legal services from Cooley.

*You will receive a FREE 1 year subscription to the Fast Company Magazine when you register:

What are you waiting for? Its coming up fast. Go register HERE and I will see you at the Kabuki Hotel, Tuesday, October 27th. in San Francisco.