Alexandre Mars began his first enterprise at 17, organizing concert events at his highschool. He then purchased two computer systems and launched an internet company earlier than shifting on to discovered a number of totally different firms, 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 entails backing a portfolio of highly-vetted nonprofits, providing donors progressive methods to help them and guaranteeing impression via information evaluation and experiences. Blisce, in the meantime, is the primary B Corp licensed growth-stage transatlantic VC fund.
For years, he notes, entrepreneurship was stronger within the U.S. for 2 principal 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.
In Mission Attainable, the serial entrepreneur writes about his personal expertise and gives recommendation to others who need to launch an organization. Take a look at our dialog by clicking on the hyperlink above.