The Story of Elsa Prieto, CEO at Pili Pop : The meeting of the founders, the acceleration at Le Camping, the pivots... Story of Ladies' entrepreneurship The adventure started with Soiny, during our final year at university at Gobelins. For our final-year project both of us wanted to work on an education-related project. When on exchange in the Netherlands, we were struck by the difference between the respective levels of English for French and Dutch students and it was quite the revelation - there were still quite a lot of problems to be resolved in the field of learning English! So we
Only 3% of women are at the head of businesses in France According to an article from Business O Feminin written in 2011 just 3% of French women between the ages of 18 and 64 were at the helm of a company (compared with 10% in the United States, 5.2% in the United Kingdom and 4.5% in Germany). More specifically in the field of innovation, the number still struggles to surpass 10% of CEOs. This is quite an alarming fact given that in 2013, 67% of French women stated that they would like to start up their own
Le Camping, a vector of new opportunity and advocate of creative values March 14 marked the opening of a fundamental issue at Le Camping, one month before the first round of presidential elections: innovation in France and the corresponding financing environment. Growth and competition are at the core of French public discourse and the question that appears essential today is: ?How can France be made a more competitive country?? However, at a place like Le Camping, promoting the development of young entrepreneurs, generating growth and jobs, is responding. Le Camping is an advocate of new values and drives a revamped
Virginie Berger, former marketing director at MySpace France and founder of DBTH, on the importance of knowing your market inside out from the very first stages of startup development.