FailCon is the premier conference on start-up failures and how to prepare and recover from them.

On October 25th, 2010, join over 400 entrepreneurs, developers, investors, marketers, service providers, press, and more at this year’s FailCon, called a “breath of fresh air” by NBC, a “big success” by Wired.

You aren’t a real entrepreneur until you’ve had to deal with failure, and recovering from it – financially emotionally and practically – can be challenging. Hear how major players in the industry have dealt with failure, recovered from it, and kept a positive, tenacious, and energetic attitude through it all.

What Did You Miss Last Year?

What Will You Learn This Year?

* How do VCs handle failing investments?
* Online Privacy: How do respect your users while still making money?
* What do you do when digital communication and PR goes bad?
* How do you sell your business successfully and efficiently?
* How do you financially prepare for the possibility of failure: legally, fiscally, and in your team?
* What have some of the leading executives today learned from their past experiences?
* How do you recover from a failed product or marketing campaign?
* When should you move into the mobile space without wasting resources?
* How might a start-up ruin your life & how do you balance it all?
* And more!

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Who Are The Producers?

Cass Phillipps;  Executive Producer

Cassandra Phillipps has been planning startup-themed events and conferences for nearly three years, including FailCon, SF MusicTech Summit, Inside Social Apps, Finance4Founders, and many more. Before that, she spent most of her time in classrooms, rehearsal halls, and dark theaters, stage managing (and occasionally directing, acting in, and designing for) various theaters including A.C.T, Court Theater, CalShakes, and Marin Theatre Cmpany. She recently launched Webwallflower Events, one of the leading event production companies for startup and tech summits and meetups. In her (rare) free time, she enjoys board games, comic book, and building comics for various parties and events. Follow her on twitter @webwallflower

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Diane Loviglio; Associate Producer

Diane is the Co-Founder and VP Business Development at Wattbot. She received her Bachelor of Humanities and Arts in Anthropology and Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University in 2005, focusing on sustainable design. At Carnegie Mellon, she served as project manager for the first and largest green roof on campus, Sustainable Materials Guru for the Solar Decathlon, and Designer/Director of their first peer-to-peer environmental education program. She was most recently co-chair of the San Francisco Green Roof Task Force and a research assistant and recruiter for Intel Research Berkeley’s Bright Green study.