Ressi started the Founder Institute in 2009 in his Palo Alto, Calif. garage as a response to the financial crisis and his belief that lowering the high failure rate for start-ups could lead to an economic recovery.
However, a survey of almost 1, 500 European business leaders carried out late last year by UPS, a logistics firm, showed that they are more worried about the failure to enforce the existing single-market rules.