Cassie Phillipps
I’m really excited about failure this week!
Failure, you ask?
Well, I am delighted to have the organizer of FailCon, Cassie Phillipps, on this week’s edition of The A-List.
What I love us is that Cassie’s creating an event around ‘failure’ (some might think the opposite of what leads to influence), when in fact, we can learn so much from mistakes made… it’s history after all, right?
Those of us (like me) around during the first dot-bust can see so much of the same happening now – but with more savvy from the ones who seemed to have learned something the first time around.
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More about Cassie, freelance event designer and coordinator as well as co-founder of Room Full of People, Inc. from her bio:
Cassandra Phillipps began organizing startup events and conference in the summer of 2007, joining the team behind SFbeta and SNAP Summit.
She now assists numerous groups with their events, including Finance4Founders, SF MusicTech, and Project Startup. However, she is most excited for her 6th conference, FailCon: Finding the Path to Success, the first conference ever to focus on entrepreneurial failure, what to expect, and how to overcome it (coming up at the Kabuki Hotel in San Francisco on October 27, 2009).
Before tech, she spent most of her time in classrooms, rehearsal halls, and dark theaters, stage managing (and occasionally directing, acting, and designing for) various theaters including American Conservatory Theater, Court Theater, CalShakes, Marin Theater Company, and Aurora Theatre.
In her (rare) free time, she enjoys board games, comic books, and building costumes for various parties and events.
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