Startup Grind Vancouver is hosting Mike McDerment (FreshBooks)

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Channel: Startup Grind Local · 2018 · Education

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Innovationg for Survival: How to Take Risks the Right Way

We're hosting a Toronto-based guest this time, Mike McDerment, CEO & Co-founder of FreshBooks!

In our fireside chat you can learn how this visionary CEO had the foresight to recognize his product was going to fail and the huge risk he took to overcome the inevitable - giving his team the freedom to spend 2 years building a new competing product to test UX designs in the market.

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