Alexandre Mars began his first enterprise on the age of 17 and arranged concert events at his high faculty. He then purchased two computer systems and began an online company earlier than founding a number of completely different corporations together with Phonevalley (bought to Publicis) and Scroon (bought to Blackberry).

The French entrepreneur is now the founder and CEO of each the Epic Basis and Blisce. With Epic, he created a brand new mannequin for philanthropy that features supporting a portfolio of extremely vetted nonprofits, gives donors progressive methods to help them, and ensures affect via information evaluation and reporting. Blisce, however, is the primary B Corp-certified transatlantic growth-stage VC fund.

He notes that entrepreneurship within the US has been stronger for years for 2 principal causes: extra capital to spend money on startups and chapter legal guidelines that made it simpler to fail and bounce again. That made it simpler for US entrepreneurs to undertake the late South African chief Nelson Mandela’s mindset of all the time feeling like a winner since you both win or study. In distinction, entrepreneurs primarily based in Europe needed to battle more durable for cash and grapple with legal guidelines that made the implications of failure devastating. That’s altering – as is the definition of success and the right way to obtain it.

In Mission Attainable, the serial entrepreneur writes about his personal experiences and advises others who wish to begin a enterprise. Watch our dialog by clicking the hyperlink above.

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