ROCKETBIKE - two students travel the world meeting with entrepreneurs

RocketBike, an association founded by EDHEC students, aims to travel the world meeting with entrepreneurs. These adventurers travel by bike looking for advice and tips on how to succeed in entrepreneurship in an international context. 

"Around-the-world" entrepreneurship 

The association’s core project is to help people who want to become entrepreneurs overseas to go about it under the best possible conditions. To achieve this, the members of RocketBike have created a guide for entrepreneurship overseas that is produced in digital format and uploaded to the website rocketbike.org as each mission is completed.

To gather the information they need to produce this guide, the team travels around the world to meet with locals and many expat entrepreneurs. The people they talk to can share information about:

• The local and national economy 
• Living standards and working conditions 
• How these entrepreneurs managed to develop their business, as well as advice and a certain number of mistakes to avoid

What makes RocketBike unique, beyond the fact that its members are students, is their chosen transport method: they travel across continents by bike!

Why cycle? 

First of all, it is a way to respect the environment they travel through, with each mission leaving no carbon footprint over a 6-month period. Secondly, it is a way to generate publicity: 10,000 km by bike in 6 months across an entire continent catches people’s attention!

After South America in 2018, this year the second edition will cover North America, with two adventurers making the journey from Mexico to Toronto. 

The appeal of this itinerary is that it crosses hugely different countries: Mexico, a developing nation with a complex geopolitical context; the United States, where the self-made man is king; and Canada, a vast territory with two distinct linguistic influences. For the second edition, the two adventurers hope to go even further in providing future entrepreneurs with useful information. As well as interviews and gathering feedback, they plan to add files with political, economic and legislative information about each country. They will also emphasise the benefits of sport and the life balance it offers. Quite a busy agenda!