Alexandre Mars began his first enterprise at 17, organizing live shows at his highschool. He then purchased two computer systems and launched an online company earlier than shifting on to discovered a number of totally different corporations, together with Phonevalley (offered to Publicis) and Scroon (offered to Blackberry).
The French entrepreneur is now founder & CEO of each the Epic Basis and Blisce. In Epic, he created a brand new mannequin for philanthropy that includes backing a portfolio of highly-vetted nonprofits, providing donors revolutionary methods to help them and guaranteeing affect by means of knowledge evaluation and studies. Blisce, in the meantime, is the primary B Corp certified growth-stage transatlantic VC fund.
For years, he notes, entrepreneurship was stronger within the U.S. for 2 important causes: extra capital to put money into startups and chapter legal guidelines that made it simpler to fail and bounce again. That made it simpler for U.S. entrepreneurs to undertake the late South African chief Nelson Mandela’s mindset of all the time feeling like a winner since you’re both successful or studying. Europe-based entrepreneurs, in distinction, needed to combat more durable for cash and handled legal guidelines that made the results of failure devastating. That’s altering—as is the definition of success and the way you obtain it.
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