When ESCP alumnus Julien Sylvain shut down his first company, Leaf Supply, he says it felt like “the sudden loss…
20 November 2025 | 6 minute read
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Learning to begin again: Europe’s ‘second-chance’ entrepreneurs
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S.W.A.G. Studio: using urban dance to foster inclusion and fight exclusion
In a time when division and exclusion are all too common, whether rooted in social, racial or cultural differences, Pauline…
28 November 2024 | 5 minute read
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Pandas: As rare as women leaders?
In the long path to reaching gender equality, there’s no single tool that will help women achieve equality with men.…
2 April 2024 | 8 minute read
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Start, Learn, Lead: Lessons for first-time entrepreneurs
Driven by a passion for innovation and creation, Maksim Shymanovich embraces the challenge of starting things from zero. His first…
15 March 2024 | 6 minute read
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From student startup to edtech acquisition, the founder of Clay shares his quest to scale social learning
Started as a feedback tool designed for students, Clay, the app created by Christoph Koenig when he was still an…
7 February 2023 | 7 minute read
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They reached $1 billion valuation, what’s next for the French start-up PayFit?
With PayFit, one of France’s unicorn startups, Firmin Zocchetto hopes to bring innovation to the payroll process of small and…
23 March 2022 | 6 minute read
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Helping refugees by making inclusion a high-value investment for companies
Théo Scubla founded each One at the beginning of his Masters in Management at ESCP Business School with the willingness…
17 December 2021 | 8 minute read
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“Entrepreneurship is about more than fundraising”
Entrepreneur Alexandre Bonetti is the CEO and co-founder of French startup Simplébo, which helps entrepreneurs and small businesses launch their…
14 December 2021 | 7 minute read
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Art and entrepreneurship to help those in need: interview with Jo Bautista
Jo Bautista is an artist and social entrepreneur. In 2020, as Covid-19 disrupted our lives, she launched SendToGive, a social…
2 December 2021 | 6 minute read
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