Courageous, Candid Business Failure Stories
Success stories make the road to success look so smooth and linear. Fuck Up Nights is about all the critical, boring, disastrous, frustrating, depressing, tough, mess, and epiphany moments in between.
Every other month, we bring together 3-4 entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs, to share their fuck ups — a business failure, served with a side of confusion, heartbreak, raw honesty, and self-discovery. Here, it’s ok to share what’s not going well.
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Cut The Small Talk and…
We, the Triple A’s (Angela, Amelie, Adele), couldn’t do this alone!
Special thanks to…
Engineers.sg for recording our speakers!
Yannick and team from FuckUp Nights Global; Dennis and superinterns at the Hub for staying with us all night.
(All photos by co-org Angela Ognev)
Our Past Events
Thanks for joining us to challenge the norms that tell us to hide our difficulties and embarrassments; they surface the personal and emotional elements of business failure, and redefine fuckups with courage, honesty, and humor!
XVI. June 7th, 2017
(Takeaways, photogallery, and bios!)
Sandra Quelle
Vitae Advisor
(Video) (Slides)
XV. Apr 5th, 2017
(Takeaways, photogallery, and bios!)
Steve Feiner
A Better Florist, ex-Google
(Video) (Slides)
Sandhya Sriram, PhD
SciGlo, Biotechin.asia
(Video) (Slides)
Erin Chen
Lila Sutra, SPARK
(Video) (Slides)
Simon Leow
Happiness Initiative
(Slides)
XIV. Feb 8th, 2017
(Takeaways, photogallery, and bios!)
Elisha Tan
Facebook, TechLadies
(Video)
Hemant Chanrai
Eight Four Capital, Azzura Solar
(Video)
Steph Phua
Studio
(Video)
Hester Aba
Delilah Creative
(Video)
XIII. Dec 7th, 2016
(Takeaways, photogallery, and bios!)
Alexander Linnerth & Bernhard Schwarz – Sunshine Nation, Garden Beats
(Video) (Slides)
Zai Miztiq
Miztiq Ally
(Video) (Slides)
Fazil Musa
Street Smart University
(Video) (Slides)
Imran Mohamed
Fast Business Growth
(Video) (Slides)
XII. Oct 5th, 2106
(Takeaways, Photogallery and bios!)
Andrea Loh
Dragon Law, The Apprentice Asia
(Video)
Gary Guwe
Speak Ventures, The Shy Speakers Guide
(Video)
XI. Aug 3rd, 2016
(Takeaways, Photogallery and bios!)
Keith Ng
Co-founder of Gametize.com
(Video)
Elyse-Anne
Mentor to spiritual business owners (elyseanne.com)
(Video)
Richard Phu
Ultimate Man (richardphu.com)
(Video)
X. June 30th: Social Impact Edition
(Photogallery and bios!) With World Summit Awards global delegates.
Nadav Ossendryver
Founder of LatestSightings.com (South Africa)
Grace Clapham-Gadbois
Co-founder of TheChangeSchool.com
Odeta Iseviciute
BliuBliu.com (Lithuania)
(Video)
IX. June 1st, 2016
CK Vishwakarma
Founder of ATCAlliance (IoTSG)
(Video)
Dr. Martha Tara Lee
Founder of Eros Coaching (Clinical Sexologist)
(Video)
Yoshiaki Ieda
P&G Global Marketing Lead (Serial Entrepreneur)
(Video)
VIII. April 7th, 2016: Business Gets Personal
Angela Ognev – on ego, data with a grain of salt, mistaking urgency for importance, conversations around not feeling appreciated
Aishy Za – on overestimation, runway, going all in, escape, trust, life as a series of experiments, and happiness vs happier
Shilpa S Nath – on burnout, using work as a distraction, running away from problems, self-care, and being fine with just being fine
VII. February 4th, 2016
Ricardo Sentosa
CEO and founder of Venuerific
(video)
Kimble Ngo
Founder, Lead trainer of Amplify Influence
(video)
Abhishek C George
Co-founder of F&B Singapore, Resident drunk at The Spiffy Dapper
(video)
Calvin Soh
Founder of Ninety Nine Percent
(Video)
VI. December 3rd, 2015
Steven Pang
Recruitment businesses serial entrepreneur
Muriel Boutin-Becuwe
(Co-Founder of PAPAYAPATHS)
Kelvin Lim
Founder of Executive Coach International
V. October 7th, 2015
Claudia Correia
Clinical Dietician, Raffles Hospital
Eadren Tan
Creative Coach, Language That Works
Geeman Yip
Founder and CEO, BitTitan
IV. August 13th, 2015
Ayla Kremb
Love @ Scale
(Video)
Grace Huang
Trifecta Martial Arts
(Video)
Mark Jamieson
CALM Revolution
(Video)
III. July 2nd, 2015
Gabriel Cher
Chef
Krystal Choo
Hey Wander
Harald Battran
Management Consultant
Winnie Chua
Singer
@Wnechua
II. May 20th, 2015
Grace Sai
The Hub
(Video)
Elisha Tan
(Video)
Kevin Flanagan
Big Data, AI, Risk
(Video)
Adrian Tan
adriantan.com.sg
(video)
I. March 12th, 2015
0. December 18th, 2014
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Your Team
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Cuts the small talk to
Relationships, desire, social norms, psych, econ
Angela Ognev Organiser
"Dabbler" could be my nickname. For a long time, I resisted it -- after all, "jack of all trades, king of none." Then I realised society was imposing this definition of success on me; it says "who you are is defined by what you do, and you can't possibly be good at or interested in many things." So now, I let my curiosity drive me; I connect across disciplines and mindsets; I measure and define success for me. (Cut The Small Talk? Vulnerability. Fears. Shame. Relationships.)
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Cuts the small talk to
Travel, dating, social pressure, freedom
Amelie Tan Co-organiser
People know me as the straight-talking foodie (or rather, a pleasure advocate), (borderline) alcoholic and cat-lover. All very socially-accepted stuff. What I don't talk about often enough are atheism, death, how I deal with relationships of all kinds, and how I want to see justice served to those who deserve (in legal ways) and many more. These are the topics I want to bring to the table in our upcoming conversations. Leave your self-consciousness at the door and join us.