Alar Kolk EIA

1. Alar Kolk
President, European Innovation Academy
Innovation and Failure
http://www.innovationacademy4u.com

2. 90% of new
products and
services fail…
…today we
have 36 teams
in this
room…?

3. Milton Hershey started
three unsuccessful
companies before
Hershey’s Chocolate.
The Beatles were
originally rejected by
Decca Recording studios,
who said “we don’t like
their sound” and “they
have no future in show
business”.

4. Milton Hershey started three unsuccessful
companies before Hershey’s Chocolate.

5. „Failure is an
event not a
person”.

7. James Bond Innovation Challenge
ChallengeYourself @ European Innovation Academy Sessions!
• Rapid prototyping
• Bullet speed problem solving
• Master of high tech
• Rival your competitors
• Smooth operator & networker

8. Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again,
this time more intelligently. Henry Ford

11. Fail fast.
Fail cheap.
Fail early.
Go out to fail.
Follow The Innovation F-word!

13. Bruce Lee - "Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low
aim, is the crime.
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

14. The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim
is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and
we reach it. Michelangelo

15. http://www.innovationacademy4u.com

16. …and You need to practice
Innovators’ Failure
Pitching!!!
ChallengeYourself @ European Innovation Academy!

17. Most businesses fail, so if you're going to succeed, it has to
be about more than making money. Richard Branson