Achievements

Students at EA – The Entrepreneurship Academy start, grow and optimize startups and entrepreneurial projects as a result of the learning methodology.

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Student
Achievements

Data collected from September 2019 – June 2020

72

Launched projects & startups

€ 916000

Total Sales

€ 650000

Total Raised Investments

€ 9000

Sales/student (average)

20

New ideas in progress at the moment

9

MVPs in progress

20

Growing Sales

17

Profitable startups

Examples of Student Startups

Difrnt

Difrnt is a digital marketing agency focused on online performance with a wide skill set: from Paid Media, Search Engine Optimisation, Marketing Automations to UX & UI as well as the ability to execute growth hacking campaigns.

Flip

Flip helps people sell their phones without wasting time in meetings with strangers and uncomfortable negotiations. The team handles everything and send clients the cash in the bank account. Flip.ro - is changing the way people buy and sell second-hand electronics!

Confidas

Confidas is an online platform that helps small businesses get paid on time by providing credit reports for more than 600,000 active Romanian companies and the people who run them. It's helping companies to get paid on time.

Fustițe cu Luminițe

Fustițe cu Luminițe is more than just a tutu for girls. They deliver joy and dash of boldness to girls, teens, and women, which allows them to shine, catch everyone’s eye and spark “WOW!” reactions everywhere they go.

Zoe Studio

Zoe Studio is a custom apparel studio which manufactures clothing for Romanian brands with great stories and strong values. We provide services of embroidery, DTG printing, screen printing and apparel acquisition.

Rawmantic

Rawmantic is a bakery founded by two young entrepreneurs with a simple mission: make a difference in people’s health through plant-based, guilt-free desserts. What does guilt-free mean? No refined sugar, dairy, or artificial ingredients.

Ez Stick

Stick your phone on any surface! Ez Stick is a smart cell phone stand built to make your life easier! Ez Stick helps you attach your device temporarily to glass, plastic, metal, wood, tiles, dashboard or any non-textured area! It is small but mighty, very practical and surprisingly fun!

Humance

Humance Cosmetics is a organic cosmetics brand, that sells body and hair products. What is different about Humance Cosmetics is that you can customise your products according to your needs and desires

Business
mentors

Brain power, experience and network helping the students succeed.

Dorin Boerescu

Entrepreneur in printing, design and digital marketing, co-founder of Godmother, Agrafa Print Services, Taraba Cu Carti, Hyperactive and 2Performant.

Alin Copîndeanu

Entrepreneur with focus on fashion, started with Caffe Hub, followed by Etelle and Tudor. Personal Tailor

Iulian Cîrciumaru

After AT Kearney and PWC, founded and sold Seven Benefit (7Card), and became investor in several startups and NGOs, through his V7 Capital fund, as co-founder.

Andrei Crețu

Co-founder and CEO at Seven Benefit (7Card), sold to Sodexo and became investor in several startups and NGOs, through the V7 Capital fund, as co-founder.

Irina Alionte

Entrepreneur focusing on education and wellbeing, Irina co-founded Born2Succeed and in 2014 founded a different fitness concept, Bodyshape Transformation, a real innovative concept mixing sport and lifestyle with health and wellbeing.

Vlad Ungureanu

Intrapreneur at Holcim, Vlad grows an innovative concept called StartCasa, one of the first marketplaces in the construction and design industry.

Mihai Zânt

With experience in HR in large corporations like Apa Nova and Veolia, Mihai helps teams and individuals deal with change and the process of achieving their dreams, as a certified coach.

Răzvan Crișan

Serial entrepreneur in the restaurant business, he created M60 bistro and M60 summer space, and now is co-founder and CEO at Kane Group.

Ciprian Stancu

With large expertise in Sales and Marketing, he is founder of Republica Bio and later co-founded its French branch. He is also an investor in Fintech and Organic Agriculture.

Ilinca Păun

Former CEO of Colliers Intl, co-founder EA, partner investor in Impact Hub and Business Angel in prop tech start ups.

Alexandru Ghiță

Co- founder at EA, Entrepreneur in education, president of Educativa group, leader in educational services and events.

What do our students say

George Moroianu

Year IV Student

I discovered early on that entrepreneurship was my passion. I picked Entrepreneurship Academy as my faculty option because I was aware that only a faculty that puts accent on practice more than on theory can be relevant in the business field. Looking back to the 4 years of studies, I strongly believe E.A. was instrumental to my development both as a person and as an entrepreneur. It is fascinating how much all the courses, Learning Journeys, colleagues and business experts around the community have contributed to who I am today! As the faculty ends, I am currently the founder of Flip.ro, an investment backed marketplace that recently exceeded 280,000 euros in revenues.

Miruna Toanchina

Year IV Student

Choosing to study at The Entrepreneurship Academy has been one of the best decisions I ever made when I was 18. I was and still am keen on always finding myself on a steep learning curve, both from a theoretical and practical point of view. After four challenging years, full of experiences that enabled me to grow on personal and professional level, depression and joy, courses and business, I discovered what I am really passionate about. That is, building impact startups with passionate individuals. If you are ready to start the journey of your entrepreneurial life and have real impact on what matters for you, EA is the right call! :)

Clara Mateoiu

Year I Student

I knew I wanted to be my own boss so I was always a bit skeptical about the educational system that teaches you how to be a good employee. Having this in mind, I decided to go study art in France, a field I am passionate about in a country I like. I did this because I was thinking that entrepreneurship it’s a self-taught profession for which I don’t need an educational backround - so if I choose to study something, I might as well study something I am passionate about. While in France I started my first real entrepreneurial project, an e-commerce platform. Sooner or later I realised the importance of having a business education if you want to be an entrepreneur, so I decided to come back to Romania and join EA, a new and innovative university. And I don’t regret it :)

Octavian Sicoe

Year III Student

I have chosen this University for the sole reason that I thought that being around this community for the next 4 years will be much more valuable than any University in Romania or abroad. Along with these awesome people that I met, I have created experiences of all kinds that helped me grow on personal and business levels. For me, it is all about people, and I found here the right ones. They challenged, taught, and guided me towards the person I am today.

Horia Stupu

Year IV Student

The Entrepreneruship Academy made me who I am today. This faculty helped me in learning how to grow day by day, to create a network of highly intelligent and skilled people, to gain self-confidence and develop a business with the best team I could ever imagine. I came to the conclusion that this faculty was the best decision I ever made in the last four years for my personal development. After four years of being a student at EA, I find myself as the co-founder of Difrnt agency, a digital services provider for relentless businesses, that generated over 250.000 euro in revenues in the last 2 years.

Alex Burghelia

Year III Student

All the knowledge that I needed in order to start and serve more than 5000+ clients comes from The Entrepreneurship Academy’s courses, team-sessions, experts sessions, networking opportunities, events, coaching, learning journeys and the way I was encouraged to apply things in real life. Looking back, after 3 years of being a student at EA, I believe that joining this faculty was one of the best decisions I took in my life.

Teodora Popa

Year III Student

I went to Computer Science College in the Netherlands. I stayed there for a year, and then I decided to come back to Romania and applied to EA. I was very attracted to the way we learn here. The educational program is established alongside the students, and each course is specially created based on the needs we have in business at the time of the course. For example, in year 1 we were learning about the legislation and the process of opening an SRL - exactly when we open our companies, and the idea oflearning by doing is very well implemented in our faculty.

Petrișor Răzvan Cătălin

Year III Student

At The Entrepreneurship Academy, I had the opportunity to find out what entrepreneurship really means, primarily through practice, but also from experts and entrepreneurs. I worked on various entrepreneurial projects and discovered new areas from which I learned and still learn a lot. Mostly, I like that we are not limited to business discussions, but we found and worked on our own businesses, and we can directly apply all the theory learned in courses directly. In addition, we have a community of experts and mentors who are always open to helping and guiding us.

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Frequently
asked questions

1. Who needs to bring the initial capital for starting the business?

Students have ownership in deciding what business ideas they want to implement and what initial capital they need to invest. Therefore, raising that investment is their responsibility. If they want to start big, they might want to apply for funding or look for investors, and even put their own capital into the business.

2. Who owns the students’ businesses?

Students own their businesses. They are the ones who create a legal company for running their business ideas. It’s their choice to decide who to make business with, and to establish the legal participation and ownership of the team members within their company.

3. What happens with the companies of the students, after graduation?

They remain in their ownership. If there are members who wish to retire or others who want to join, it’s again the team’s responsibility to make the necessary changes form the legal point of view.

4. What is the role of the Business Mentors?

The mentors are meant to guide the progress of the business, with the objective of creating context for progress in a sustainable way. They meet with students progressively starting with year one and increasing the number and time of interactions as students pass into the next years. In the year III, and semester one of year IV, the students meet the business mentors every week.