WATERVILLE — Come hear how Derek Myska of Winslow took an idea from his college dorm room all the way to the venture capital firms of California and to the halls of Facebook and Google.
Myska’s story will take the audience on an amazing journey through the trials and tribulations of being an entrepreneur in the cutting edge world of high technology and social media platforms.
This event, Pardon the Innovation, will be held from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, in the Spann Student Commons Summit Room at Thomas College. The event is sponsored by the Harold Alfond Institute for Business Innovation and co-hosted by KV Connect and Synergy, Waterville and Augusta’s young professional groups respectively. The event is free and open to the public.
Myska grew up in Winslow and graduated from Winslow High School. He then attended the University of Maine, where he developed a particular interest and skill in digital media and computer programming. After graduating from the UMaine in May 2007, with a degree in New Media, a concentration in Information Design and a minor in Computer Science, Myska took a position as a Software Developer with the company InforME. It was from this combination of skill, interest and experience that Myska would then begin to form the origins of a company called ‘PingTank’.
