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Sorina Dumitru

We're Starting The Equity Academy 🎓

Published 23 days ago • 1 min read

LAUNCHING

The Equity Academy

First group session, everybody! I built a platform where high quality founders, owners, managers, operators can find each other. I put all my tools in there that help you generate a pitch deck (course included), company valuation and funding round design. There's a chatbot in there too, i trained him on all my relevant books.

Deciding what to build

'How do I know what to build?'

This was by far the most frequent question I got from founders. Because, the thing is, if we are talented builders, we can build basically anything. We like the challenge. We find solutions. But we need constraints. And so, most of our professional lives, we've been building things for other people.

Sooner or later we recognise that we really have to start building something for ourselves. And we can build anything. Especially today, my God. I built this platform on a Sunday.

Few people actually understand the secret struggle of builders. Builders know how to build anything. But they kind of have to give themselves permission first to start building for themselves.

Live Session Wednesday April 22nd, 9pm GST/12pm EST

*use code LAUNCH50

Inaction is a slow death.

15 Northside Tower, Marasi Drive, Business Bay, Dubai 0000
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Sorina Dumitru

Architecture PhD | Business Advisory | Value Creation

The topics will be mostly about leadership, economics, and operational/strategic growth. Exits or Funding Rounds. Free books included. Yeah I was in Forbes but that was a long time ago.

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