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Columbia Startup Lab

Startup Finance and Accounting: Best Practices Investors Are Looking For

Thursday, March 23rd between 1:00 am & 3:00 pm.
Columbia Startup Lab 69 Charlton St @ Varick
Ground Floor of the SoHo West WeWork Building

SIGN UP REQUIRED
Please email cm3014@columbia.edu to request your slot

Please sign up for an 30-minute office hour with early-stage public accountant and partner at EisnerAmper John Pennett, a long-time friend to Columbia Entrepreneurship.

John will answer your questions and cover:

  • What angels are looking for in a set of credible financials
  • What really impresses them
  • What they DON’T want to see

John Pennett has worked with dozens of start-ups, providing advice on corporate structure, fund raising and preparing to meet investors, grant accounting and requirements, bookkeeping   and taxation. He has 30 years of public accounting experience. John is a frequent writer and speaker on topics related to issues impacting early-stage businesses.

John supports entrepreneurial organizations around the country with content and program development, and serves as a mentor to several early-stage companies. John has lead the accounting, auditing and strategic advisory work for more than a hundred IPO, private financing and mergers and acquisitions with an aggregate valuation in excess of $1 billion. In addition, he has served as the interim lead of the firm’s Risk Advisory Practice, leading internal audit, contract compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley implementation and testing. John previously worked as an Audit Partner for an international accounting and consulting firm.