I 'm planning the next round of live seminars for Drou Academy, and I want to build them around what you actually want to learn. Vote for your top 3 (or drop a comment if you want something not listed)! 🚀 Startups & Fundraising (new — tied to my upcoming book, Angel Investing and Venture Capital Playbook) 1. What Investors Are Really Evaluating When You Pitch 2. Term Sheets Decoded — SAFEs, Convertible Notes & Series A Preferred Stock 3. Cap Tables & Dilution — the Ownership Math Every Founder Must Know 4. Startup Valuation Demystified — Market, Income, Cost & the Hybrid Approach 5. Building a Data Room & the Art of Financial Storytelling for Fundraising 6. Exit Strategies — M&A, IPO, and Beyond Career Prep 7. What I Wish I Knew Before My First Wall Street Interview 8. Live Modeling Test Walkthrough — a real case study, start to finish 9. Breaking Into Credit Analysis vs. IB vs. PE (Q&A / panel style) Valuation & Investing 10. What's a Startup Actually Worth? (Options Pricing, DCF & Market Methodology) 11. DCF Mistakes That Get You Fired in an Interview 12. Comps vs. Precedent Transactions — when each one lies to you 13. Reading a Cap Table Like a VC Credit & Debt Markets 14. How Banks Really Decide Who Gets a Loan (inside a credit committee memo) 15. Distressed Debt Investing 101 — what happens when a company can't pay 16. Reading a Covenant Package Like a Lender 17. LBO Debt Structuring — senior/sub/mezz stacks in a real deal 👉 Comment with the numbers of your top 3, or react with 🔥 on the ones you want most. The topics with the most votes get scheduled first — and a couple may turn into paid deep-dive workshops or tie into the launch of my new book.

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Hello Drou Academy Members, Due to teaching commitments all of next week for the all ay Columbia University Pre-College summer Program, I will be postponing all Drou Academy seminars scheduled for next week. Our regular seminar schedule will now begin the week of July 20. The paid seminars, which require additional preparation and individualized attention, will officially begin the week of August 2 and will continue on the Saturdays that follow - extended until the end of the year. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. If you have already registered and paid for one of the seminars, please send me a separate message to let me know if this revised schedule works for you. Thank you for your patience, and I look forward to seeing you all soon. Professor Drou

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