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SUMMARY:Building Credible Financials for Early Stage Investors
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for an evening with David Ehrenberg\, a long-time friend\, partner and mentor to Columbia University Entrepreneurship. He started Early Growth Financial Services to provide a service that didn’t exist when he was working at early stage companies – high-quality accounting and strategic financial consulting services on demand. \nDavid will conduct 90-minute interactive workshop\, which will lay out \n\nWhat angels are looking for in a set of credible financials\nWhat really impresses them\nWhat they DON’T want to see\n\nWhat You’ll Take Away:\nFounders of early-stage ventures are in love with their products\, and all too often\, they want to tell the whole\, long story. Early-stage investors are all to often jaded\, cynical and well\, just real busy. If they even give you 10 minutes\, it is likely that they’re distracted. How can founders make the most out of their pitch? How can you edit your the financial side of your story down to the most compelling bits?\nDavid has seen it all\, from both sides of the conversation. In this workshop\, he’ll help you understand what is most relevant to investors and what is superfluous. He’ll help you gain an understanding how to build credibility by telling a credible story through numbers.\nWhy It Matters: If you’re raising capital for the first time\, you’ll be a novice going up against a hardened veteran. Most founders can clearly articulate their value proposition\, but sometimes struggle when it comes to telling a concise and credible numbers story.\nAbout the Expert \n\nDavid Ehrenberg Founder\, Partner and Chief Executive Officer\,\nEarly Growth Financial Services \nDavid Ehrenberg founded Early Growth Financial Services (EGFS) in 2008 to address the lack of on-demand financial support available to startups. David’s passion for mentoring entrepreneurs\, and helping early-stage startups to thrive\, led him to create the integrated financial solution that EGFS provides\, from day-to-day accounting to strategic finance\, tax\, and valuation support.\nAs CEO\, David has overseen incredible growth at EGFS\, leading to its being ranked #5 in Silicon Valley Business Journals’ annual Fastest Growing Private Companies award for 2013. David’s articles and insights are frequently posted in such prestigious publications as Forbes\, Inc\, VentureBeat\, Huff Post Small Business\, Yahoo! Small Business Advisor\, Startup Nation\, and more. He is an active speaker and event leader who presents regularly to founders and others within the startup ecosystem. He also co-founded and moderated Pitch Flip LA 2013 in which investors from Silicon Valley presented to a broad sampling from the LA startup community. \nDavid has strategic and operational expertise in all areas of early-stage finance\, including strategic planning\, forecasting\, venture funding\, debt financing\, and M&A. Prior to founding EGFS\, David was the first CFO for Abound Logic\, playing an integral role in building out the company’s finance and administrative infrastructure. Before that\, David was a Controller for Microsoft\, in a division that focused on creating new products and business solutions. Earlier in his career\, David was a key member of the finance team at Extreme Networks and Voice Stream Wireless and VP of Finance for Radiant Research\, where he was responsible for selling the company in two transactions and ensuring a successful exit for investors and management.\nAbout Our Partners
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/building-credible-financials-early-stage-investors/
LOCATION:General Assembly\, NYC\, 10 East 21st\, Third Floor\, New York City\, NY\, 10010\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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SUMMARY:Office Hours: Immigration and Innovation in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:Strategic Paths for Foreign National Founders and Entrepreneurs\nThursday\, February 23rd between 11:00 am & 1:00 pm.\nColumbia Alumni Center 622 West 113th st. \nSIGN UP REQUIRED\nPlease email cm3014@columbia.edu to request your slot \nIf you’re an international student or recent alumnus concerned with recent or pending changes to U.S.  immigration law and policy\, we encourage you to sign up for office hours with Michael Serotte. \nMichael Serotte\, Founder and Senior Partner of Serotte Law\, focuses on helping immigrant entrepreneurs and startups. Michael serves as Immigration Counsel for Stanford’s StartX and Graduate School of Business\, Duke’s Entrepreneurship Initiative\, and numerous private accelerators including Unshackled\, Alchemist\, and Founder Institute. His client list includes many Bay Area startups. \nMichael also advises on the immigration-related needs of employers in a wide range of industries\, including technology\, energy\, healthcare\, manufacturing\, and media. He also enjoys working with individuals who have complicated business and investment immigration cases\, and Canadians who have been denied entry at the U.S. border. \nMichael’s background in business\, finance and entrepreneurship offers his clients a valuable perspective on business and investment immigration strategies for both established companies and startups. \nAfter earning a BBA in Accounting and Finance as an undergraduate at the University of Miami\, he worked as an accountant with the predecessor of Ernst & Young\, and practiced law and worked in finance in Washington\, DC.  While Serotte Law has clients all over the U.S. and foreign countries\, Michael travels to his offices in the San Francisco\, New York\, Buffalo\, and Toronto to meet in person. \nMichael’s biggest thrill comes when his team gets a case approved when other lawyers said it couldn’t. And when the Buffalo Bills win a Super Bowl! .
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/office-hours-immigration-innovation-trump-era/
LOCATION:Columbia Alumni Center\, 622 W. 113th Street\, New York\, NY\, 10025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with Y Combinator Partners Dalton Caldwell and Kat Manalac
DESCRIPTION:Join Columbia Entrepreneurship\nat the Columbia Startup Lab\nfor an Afternoon with Y Combinator Partners\nDalton Caldwell and Kat Manalac\nFriday\, February 24 – 3:00 to 4:00 pm\nColumbia Startup Lab – 69 Charlton St. at Varick\, NYC\n\n \nDalton Caldwell was the cofounder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009)\, and the cofounder and CEO of App.net. He has a BS in Symbolic Systems and a BA in Psychology from Stanford University. \n \nKat Manalac was Chief of Staff to Alexis Ohanian\, cofounder of reddit\, before joining YC as its Director of Outreach. Prior to that\, Kat was at WIRED Magazine where she managed brand and strategy. Kat has a BS in Communications from Northwestern University.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/6598/
LOCATION:Columbia Startup Lab\, 69 Charlton St. @ Varick\, NYC\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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