The Big DANG

Featured video, ‘The Big DANG’, will premier at the bigBANG!
Highlights the importance of failure for social ventures

In a recent post on Just Means, Marcia Stepanek explores how “Failure is the new Cool”. She writes “As the collaboration trend gains momentum across the social advocacy landscape, the notion of failure as a critical ingredient of innovation — and cross-sector learning — appears to be gaining a new sense of urgency.”

With exactly this inspiration in mind, the bigBANG! will be hosting the “The Big DANG” in collaboration with The Unreasonable Institute will feature the world premier documentary “The big DANG!” as part of the June 10th festivities. The video will feature stories of ventures that didn’t go as expected, told from the pool of Unreasonable Institute entrepreneurs. These 25 Proven entrepreneurs working on ventures in 17 countries and hailing from six continents, competed and were selected to attend the Unreasonable Institute this summer. “The big DANG” is all about lessons learned from trying and doing. Rather than being defeated, these glass-half-full social innovators are using stories of failure as an opportunity and learning experience to come back with something bigger and better. Read More!