The club for all EDHEC entrepreneurs

Men, women
Aspiring, junior, experienced or serial entrepreneurs
For those with projects and those willing to invest time, skills or money to support EDHEC’s entrepreneurs
More experienced entrepreneurs willing to share their experience with those starting out are also welcome
Web, tech, brick & mortar
Start-up entrepreneurship, takeovers
EDHEC, BBA EDHEC, MBA, AMP, CSM ...
A reference community for all EDHEC entrepreneurs!

A community of open-minded and enterprising men and women with an appetite for risk and initiative, eager to talk to others with a view to developing their projects and personal entrepreneurial adventures. A pragmatic, benevolent and confidential community built on a spirit of mutual assistance to help you develop your business.

Building and expanding business

Club Entreprendre & Business Angels are EDHEC Alumni clubs that run 2 types of digital events all year round. These events take place every first Thursday of the month from 6pm to 7:30 pm.

• Building business
  Financial and business model test pitching sessions 

Work on your business pitches in a friendly environment: every 2 months, 3 entrepreneurs come to present their projects for 30 minutes (10-minute presentation, 10 minutes of Q&A, 10 minutes of feedback) as part of a test pitching session (fundraising or business model) to a group of graduates and/or fellow entrepreneurs. 

Who can pitch?
Anyone with a project eager to work on their “fundraising pitch” or “business model pitch” (discuss their concept).
To pitch your business, contact: asdegabriac@gmail.com and clement.vincart@gmail.com

Who can take part?
Anyone willing to help an entrepreneur move forward.

What’s the point?
- For the pitcher: it’s always useful to take a step back and get feedback from a neutral audience!
- For the participants: an entrepreneur acts like a sponge and a mirror at once. Every idea and every entrepreneur is a source of inspiration and reflection on one’s own ideas. And you know what they say: “I’ll help you today and tomorrow it will be the other way around”

• Expanding business
  Thematic workshops

They take place the first Thursday of the month, every 2 months, alternately with the pitchs tests session.
 An opportunity to discuss issues that affect your life as an entrepreneur, your projects and desires and help each other out! It’s up to you to choose the topics to be addressed at each event. So join us for fascinating encounters and walk away full of positive energy!

• Extend its social network
  The G2E interclubs

G2E is the association that federate 15 Entrepreneurship clubs from leading schools. Thanks to our membrship, you can access their events and training. To be informed, we invite you to become an member to the EDHEC Alumni Club or/and consult their website : http://asso-g2e.org/index.html
 

Group meetings: business handovers and takeovers

Club Entreprendre has a dedicated group that focuses on business handovers and takeovers. Its mission is to help those selling or taking over firms complete their projects successfully. It is open to:

1. Anyone from EDHEC working in a firm wondering about the next step in their career path and who might have vague notions about what it means to take over a business.
2. Anyone from EDHEC who has already thought about taking over a business and is looking for some encouragement before taking the plunge.
3. Those already actively taking over a business with a well-defined project underway.
4. Business owners interested in taking over another business (build-up or other).
5. Anyone from EDHEC looking to sell their business.

The club organises 4 or 5 events each year on EDHEC’s Paris campus. These may involve:
- A guest speaker or a testimonial by a takeover entrepreneur or someone selling a business
- Networking (exchanging best practices, errors to avoid, outside contacts and advice, service providers, etc.)
- Contributions by EDHEC Resources or Mentors
- Pitching sessions to present business takeover projects
- Breakfasts/After-work sessions

To receive all the latest news by email, become an Entrepreneurship Club member.

If you have any questions/suggestions/requests relating to this group, please contact one of our ambassadors: Laurent El Baze(EDHEC 2017), Olivier Flahault(EDHEC 1987), Benoit Houset (EDHEC 1993), Alexander Picavet (EDHEC 1996), Romain Rougier (EDHEC 2004)

So we can all communicate together, join our LinkedIn or Facebook groups

Online ressources

6 conference from the Entrepreneurship Club are available online. They take place in french :

- La reprise d'entreprise, témoignages
- Table-ronde Spécial Commercial & Promotion
- Lean Startup & Growth Hacking
- "Choix de la structure et statut du dirigeant"
- Entrepreneurs Café Paris: Atelier "Les aides à la création et au développement"

To see them, click here: https://alumni.edhec.edu/gene/main.php?base_id_ref=21147
Your EDHEC Email Address will be asked and your password associated.

You will find the community of EDHEC Alumni entrepreneurs on these social networks:

-Facebook page

- Facebook group

- LinkedIn group

EDHEC’s entrepreneurial ecosystem

In addition to what we offer in the Club, EDHEC’s entrepreneurial ecosystem provides many other ways to receive support:

- Keep in touch ! Update your email address in your EDHEC Alumni profile (on our website)

- If you would like financial support, learn more about EDHEC Business Angels. 

- If you would like support from the EDHEC Business School Incubator, click here(open to EDHEC students and graduates)

- Share your project with the EDHEC Alumni community by being interviewed. For that, you need to contact our community manager, Caroline De Longvilliers

- Do you have a positive impact on the society thanks to your entreprise ? We are eager to know ! Please inform us by contacting our Alumni Relations Manager, Stéphanie Painchault, stephanie.painchault@edhec.edu