George Moroianu (Flip.ro)

In my first year of university I tried to start a marketplace for house-services like cleaning, grocery-shopping, etc. Unfortunately, I found it way too challenging to aggregate supply on the Romanian market and I was too unexperienced for it, so I shut it down after 1 year and 15,000 EUROS in revenue.

In my second year, I was lucky enough to work as an Analyst for an investment fund from The Netherlands and my job was to help in the due-diligence process of VC funds and managers to decide whether we will invest in them. It was such a formatory experience for me and helped me understand things on fast forward about the Venture Capital world and about startups.

In my 3rd and 4th year, I started another marketplace, for refurbished & second-hand electronics. This time it seems that we’ve gotten the right problem to solve and we’ve came up with the right solution. I’ve been working on Flip ever since.

I think picking the right university and ultimately having access to quality education is one of those things that not only have a positive ROI, but that change the trajectory of your life for good. I honestly can’t imagine how I would have been able to achieve the things I had achieved so far without the help of E.A..

The colleagues and the university staff are the key of this model. As a student at E.A., I had access to relevant, applicable information. We were constantly working on case studies and sharing small learnings or breaktroughs that each of us, individually, had. Overall, it equipped me with the self-awareness, support and direction that an entrepreneur needs to start experimenting.