« How Volunteer Teacher Becomes an Education Entrepreneur - Maurizio de Franciscis »

In Chapter 8 of 19 in his 2010 Capture Your Flag interview with host Erik Michielsen, education entrepreneur and Global Campus (www.globalcampus.com) founder Maurizio de Franciscis shares how volunteer teaching and mentoring inspired him to start a company. De Franciscis joins Young Enterprise while working in Europe, teaching high school kids business and entrepreneurship. After relocating to the US to work for General Electric (GE), he begins advising and mentoring interns on career development and planning. Through the volunteer experiences, he begins identifying education market inefficiencies and ultimately builds a business aimed at solving those problems.