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FALL 2024

The Fall Fail UP program is underway!  Watch the Hill & Levene Highlights for information on the upcoming 2025 offering!

  • October 25 (Friday)
  • November 1 (Friday)
  • November 8 (Friday)
  • November 15 (Friday)
  • November 22 (Friday)
  • November 29 (Friday)
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Place: ED 609 - Entrepreneurial Collision Space

With only 22 spots available, register now to secure your spot!

Note that because of space constraints, students who have previously participated are not permitted to enroll again.

The Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure (Fail UP) program is a non-credit course providing a chance for transformative and experiential learning. This free cohort-based program is designed to help participants overcome the stigma associated with failure and integrate it as a fundamental component of the entrepreneurial journey.

Fail UP encompasses a series of sessions spread across seven weeks. The first session delves into the theories and frameworks surrounding learning from failure, stressing its pivotal role in fostering entrepreneurial growth and achieving business success (conducted by a faculty member). The subsequent sessions showcase speakers from diverse sectors and entrepreneurial ventures, each sharing personal stories of facing and gleaning insights from business failures. This program gives participants an opportunity to engage with both speakers and fellow cohort members.

Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure Digital Badge

A digital badge is a digital representation or credential that verifies an individual's accomplishment, skill, or completion of a specific task, course, or program. It serves as a portable and visual means of recognizing and validating achievements in various fields, such as education, professional development, or specific skill sets. They can be displayed on digital platforms like social media profiles, personal websites, or online resumes to showcase one's accomplishments and skills to potential employers, colleagues, or peers.

Upon the successful completion of all sessions and submission of written reflections, participants will be awarded the Learning from Entrepreneurial Failure Digital Badge, which will serve as a visible acknowledgment of a student's commitment to learning from failure and their dedication to the Fail UP program.

Students are listening to the presenter. Participants pose for a picture with their Fail UP certificates. A participant holds up her certificate in one hand and a Fail UP cookie in another. Students are writing their favourite quotes on failure and learning on a whiteboard in the Entrepreneurial Collision Space. Interim Dean Saqib Khan congratulates the participants on completed the Fail UP program. Fail UP cookies. A group of three pose for a picture. From left to right, Yelyzaveta Bielaia, previous Entrepreneurial Collision Space Coordinator, David Crossman, and Saqib Khan. A participant poses with the lightbulb mural on the wall. Attendees are chatting at the Wrap-up Celebration. A participant poses with a cookie with the word "Creativity" on it. Three participants pose for a picture. The Best Fail UP Award. Attendees are chatting at the Wrap-up Celebration. A group of students pose for a picture. A participant holds up a Fail UP t-shirt. Three Fail UP speakers are chatting at the Wrap-Up Celebration. A group of four are chatting at the Wrap-up Celebration. Three participants pose for a picture with their Fail UP certificates. Fail UP notebooks.