At Find New Customers, we reserve Sundays for learning. Our goal is to empower YOU to come away with new insights and ideas - in just 20 minutes or less.

Kids and those of us into nature love dinosaurs, so this TED talk caught my eye. Hope it does yours too.

http://www.ted.com Where are the baby dinosaurs? In a spellbinding talk from TEDxVancouver paleontologist Jack Horner describes how slicing open fossil skulls revealed a shocking secret about some of our most beloved dinosaurs.

Jeff Ogden is President of the B2B demand generation and global marketing company, Find New Customers who helps companies craft world class demand generation programs. On weekends, he’s a dad, husband and avid (but lousy) basketball player.

Sundays are for learning at the global marketing firm Find New Customers. We have a simple goal - to share fresh ideas and insights on Sundays. The idea is that in 20 minutes or less, you can come away with new ideas and insights.

I’m a huge believer in the power of failure - it shapes us and makes us stronger. How are you embracing failure in YOUR business? For more insights, check out this earlier post. What’s the Real Key to Success? It’s Failure!

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David Damberger discusses “Learning From Failure” at TEDxYYC 2011. (13 minutes long) Here’s the link he discusses, Admitting Failure.

David is the founder of Engineers Without Borders Calgary (EWB). After building the organization in Calgary and working with them in India, David spent four years building EWB’s overseas programs as the Director of Southern African Programs. In this role, David consulted for dozens of African based companies, non-profits and governments in the fields of agriculture; food processing; water and sanitation; and mobile applications for development.

David currently works as a corporate strategy consultant and is a co-founder of Ethical Ocean, an e-commerce marketplace for the worlds top fair-trade, eco-friendly and sweatshop free products.

David holds a degree in engineering and a minor in entrepreneurship from the University of Calgary. He is also a Social Entrepreneurship MBA candidate at the University of Oxford. Recently, David was recognized as the youngest member of the Top 40 Alumni in the History of the University of Calgary.

David will be drawing on his work experience in Africa to speak about the transformative power of publicly admitting failure in the development aid sector which currently lacks accountability, creativity and transparency.