Founder F*ckups

Join us for an honest and open discussion with leading founders who share the highs and lows of building a business!

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Our popular tech series is back! With more raw, unfiltered honesty as a new panel of founders and entrepreneurs share the highs and lows of building a start up business.

The start up scene isn’t short of people peddling their success stories. Every morning we wake up to a new ‘Linkedin lesson’ or humble brag.

Founders are too often given conflicting advice from those who’ve never actually grown a company. Growing a business is hard, the Founder F*ck Ups event series is about bringing us back to reality.

Hear from founders who’ve been there before and learnt their lessons the hard way. More importantly, listen to what advice they wish they had beforehand. There will be a strict ‘no bullsh*t’ and ‘no judgement’ rule, and hopefully everyone can enjoy some awkward stories we can all learn a little from.

Agenda

17:00
Arrival & Networking
17:45
Welcome & Introduction
17:50
Founder Panel

- Ayaan Mohamed Ali - CEO of Digitech Oasis
- Eddie Whittingham - Founder at Ministry of Work
- Anna Sutton - Co-founder at The Data Refinery
- Liam Bateman - Fractional CTO, Founder at Silverchip

18:45
Drinks & Networking

Speakers

Eddie Whittingham
Eddie Whittingham
Founder
Ministry of Work
Eddie Whittingham bootstrapped his cyber SaaS business as a sole founder to a multi-million exit to a NASDAQ-listed company in just 4 years. He has since gone on to found numerous other business, including D2C baby wear and converting a 19th century chapel in Salford into a premium workspace, Ministry of Work.
Anna Sutton
Anna Sutton
Founder
The Data Refinery
Anna Sutton co-founded The Data Shed, a bootstrapped Leeds based data engineering consultancy in 2013. Exiting to Hippo Digital in March 2023, Anna is now back at the beginning of the start-up journey with her SaaS data integration platform, The Data Refinery. A new business model, a totally different route to market and a whole new world…
Ben Davies
Ben Davies
Group Marketing Director
Praetura Group
Ben is the Group Marketing Director for Praetura Group, a group of companies who provide alternative equity and debt funding solutions for ambitious SMEs in the North of England and across the UK. Praetura backs entrepreneurs with a more than money approach, offering active support to help them grow and succeed.
Liam Bateman
Liam Bateman
Fractional CTO & Founder
Liam has spent the last 15 years at the forefront of technology leadership, as a founder, CTO and investor. His early years were spent working with business and brands in a consultant capacity before co-founding Silverchip in 2010, Silverchip was a multi award winning business with a strong reputation for technical excellence and it was successfully sold to the CTI Group in 2022. He now spends his time as a Founder/CTO for both his own ventures and in a fractional capacity leading tech busin

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Event Partner - Praetura Ventures
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Event Partner - Bruntwood SciTech
Start: September 10, 2024 5:00 pm
End: September 10, 2024 8:00 pm

Hosted at

No. 1 Circle Square, Bruntwood SciTech

Circle Square, Oxford Road, Manchester, UK

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