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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Hi UCCans, <br /> <br /> UCC is running a talk next week on the challenges and adventures around founding a start-up with Sam Spencer; the CEO of Aristotle Cloud Services.<br /> <br /> Sam Spencer is a UWA Alumni & was an active member of UCC during his time at University. He is now the CEO and technical co-founder of Aristotle Cloud Services a Software-as-a-Service start-up based in Canberra that provides data services to government. Currently in their second year of business, Sam will be talking about how Aristotle manages building open-source products while remaining commercially active, balancing the roles of CEO and developer, understanding equity and how it is issued, and coping with the inevitable growing pains that come with start-up growth.<br /> <br /> Sam will also talk about why group assignments and student committees suck.<br /> <br /> During this talk, Sam will talk about the challenges and adventures around founding a start-up. Other members of the Aristotle Cloud team will also talk about their roles within the start-up and answer questions from students who are interested in founding or joining a start-up.</div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /> This event is happening next Wednesday, the 8th of May from 17:00-18:30. It will be help in the Austin Lecture Theatre at UWA. If you are interested in attending please click the link to register at Eventbrite. <<a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-from-the-ground-up-tickets-60745164422?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR1BYrnXUclV32ImE1CMUmdj0cpeGrI30gjS3UI3HUlbJoJ2EbjsOIy0uIc" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/startup-from-the-ground-up-tickets-60745164422?aff=efbeventtix&fbclid=IwAR1BYrnXUclV32ImE1CMUmdj0cpeGrI30gjS3UI3HUlbJoJ2EbjsOIy0uIc</a>>.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">You can also follow the Facebook event. <<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/355196991766920/">https://www.facebook.com/events/355196991766920/</a>>.</div>
<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><br /> Please share the event with anyone that you think would be interested.</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">Hope to see you all there,</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">[MLG]<br />UCC Secretary</div>
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