Lessons Learned from Startup Mistakes & Failures

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Event includes food and beverages. TOPIC: On the way to success with our businesses it is inevitable we will make some mistakes and possibly failures. There are some other entrepreneurs out there who have already made some of the mistakes we have or will make in the future. What better way to prevent making some mistakes and failures than hearing how some serial entrepreneurs made them and what they learned from them. Learn how these entrepreneurs turned these mistakes and / or failures into success.  We will also discuss common mistakes that startups make and what makes startups fail.
 FORMAT / TIMELINE: 5:30pm-6:00pm Registration, Food, Open Networking 6:00pm-8:00pm Panel 8:00pm-8:30pm Open Networking PLEASE NOTE: Please arrive as close to 5:30pm-5:45pm as possible. (The building's lobby elevators are locked at 7pm, so NO LATE ARRIVALS). PROCEEDS: All tickets are tax deductible with proceeds going to Global Music Project, a 501c3. SPONSOR: Davis Wright Tremaine (<A CLASS="link" HREF="http://dwt.com/" TARGET="__blank" TITLE="http://dwt.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://dwt.com</A>)is a law firm, dedicated to providing excellent legal services, and delivering them in a manner customized to each client’s particular needs and preferences. 
 
SPEAKERS & MODERATOR
IVAN BRAIKER
Ivan is a serial entrepreneur and mentor. He has been a revenue and innovation leader for high-growth companies. He has a track record of transforming start-ups into industry leaders and has built three companies from inception to IPO. His company Hipcricket became a leading mobile marketing firm with 400k+ campaigns, proprietary SAAS technology, and 29 Fortune 100 clients through his leadership.
Having led many companies from early stages to dynamic growth, Ivan knows the importance of the right IPO strategy. He believes in building companies that people want to work for and leading with focus and compassion. He is experienced with the investment banking community and capital markets. He especially enjoys building winning sales and marketing teams that drive success. 
 
A few of Ivan’s career highlights include: 
* Pioneering mobile marketing in the US, now a multi-billion dollar industry.
* Creating a business culture twice acknowledged as one of Seattle's Best Places to Work.
* Building successful sales and marketing teams in multiple industries. 
* Disrupting the radio industry by launching the world's first satellite music network.
* Being named Billboard Magazine's Trendsetter of the Year.
* Growing Hipcricket from start-up, ultimately selling the company for $68 million.
 
SCOTT LIPSKY
Scott Lipsky is a Seattle-based serial entrepreneur and angel investor, responsible for launching, financing, growing and leading many startups and successful companies. His experience includes key roles at Amazon, aQuantive, Barnes & Noble and GameStop.
Scott's career began as CTO at GameStop, when it was a small 16-store retail chain, which grew to a mega-retailer with over 6,000 locations. At GameStop Scott pioneered distributed networking computing for business, building the world’s first entirely “PC-based” enterprise computing platform to be used by a major retail chain to run its entire operation.
He then launched Omni Information Group, a leader in the retail technology solutions sector, winning major clients including Barnes & Noble.
Scott then joined Barnes & Noble as its CTO for the chain during their period of explosive growth – when the “big box” retail trend took hold in America, and while the Internet was far in the distance.
When it became apparent that Barnes & Noble was not going to take Scott's advice to jump onto the Internet, Scott was introduced to Jeff Bezos, who was running a small 35-person startup called Amazon.com. He then joined Amazon as its Vice President of Business Expansion, where Scott was responsible for business development, strategic planning and content acquisition & licensing.
Scott then co-founded Avenue-A/Razorfish/aQuantive and served as its CTO. aQuantive rapidly became the world’s leading digital marketing technology and services company. The company was sold to Microsoft for $6 billion (now their 5th largest acquisition behind GitHub, Skype, LinkedIn and Nokia). Scott was responsible for architecting and building aQuantive’s analytics and Ad Tech platform.
Scott then founded GalleryPlayer, licensing the world’s best imagery from major multi-national brands and building content management & distribution solutions.
Scott then launched PhotoRocket – a revolutionary and unique photo sharing concept that made its public debut in 2011, just ahead of the explosion in mobile phone photography.
Scott's most recent venture is Expoundly - a mobile contextual search platform for improving mobile search and app monetization.
Since arriving in Seattle for Amazon, Scott has been busy starting & funding companies and mentoring entrepreneurs & emerging tech startups. He is also on the board of the Seattle International Film Festival, was a co-founder of Lot 47 Films, a NY-based independent film distribution company, and in 2016 was an Executive Producer on Garry Marshall’s film, “Mother’s Day”, starring Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis. For three years Scott also served on the board of Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. He was also a founding owner of 509 Wines, a boutique Washington winery.
Scott is always working on development & funding of new technology and business concepts, focused on trying to predict “the next big thing” in making consumers’ lives easier and more productive. He's also and early investor and supporter of recreational cannabis industry players in the US and abroad.
Scott’s personal interests and activities include flying, hiking, world travel, photography, food and music. And he's always looking for great new startup talent to work with on new ventures.
  
KARA WENRICH
Kara is a serial entrepreneur. Having been introduced to the music industry at 18, by the time she was 24, she ran a boutique public relations, management and booking company for musicians. She worked with both local and national touring acts. She formed a partnership with A Fight For Fame where she helped launch a national battle of the bands series, where all participants walked away with tools and connections that would help them to be successful in their music career. During her time working with musicians she also arranged benefit concerts.
Discovering that she really loved giving back to the community, Kara decided to take the skills she learned in running her own business and putting on fundraising concerts to transition to the nonprofit world. Kara went on to work with a few local nonprofits and was soon recruited to be a partner in a nonprofit consulting firm. Kara served as the Chief Business Development Officer for Unity fundraising and was the leading nonprofit expert at the firm. Having run Shining Star Promotions, Kara brought her business acumen to Unity Fund Raising where she helped grow the company from 5 employees to 30. After closing Unity Fund Raising, Kara worked at a local nonprofit before deciding she really wanted to transition back to consulting. In March 2018, Kara moved from Los Angeles to Seattle where she opened KBW Nonprofit Consulting & Events.
 
NAT BURGESS (Moderator)
Nat has over 20 years helping shareholders in technology companies achieve their goals through M&A, restructuring, funding, and strategic planning. His career took him to Wall Street and Tokyo with Morgan Stanley, Los Angeles with the SEC and Activision, and then back to Seattle to start TechStrat. He has managed over 100 mid-market technology transactions in 13 countries, is a member of the Washington State Bar, and is a frequent guest on CNBC and other programs on the topic of tech M&A.
He is also involved in startups as an angel and adviser (advisory board at Picnik, sold to Google; advisory board at Cequint, sold to TNS). Currently an investor and/or advisory board member at PointInside, Tune, Glamhive, PokitDok. Frequent commentator on CNBC (PowerPitch, PowerLunch).

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