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SUMMARY:APPLICATION DEADLINE: Undergraduate Startup Internship Fund
DESCRIPTION:It’s important to land a summer internship at a startup\nbut it’s impossible to live off the stipend they give you.\nWe can help.\nWrite us at\ncce-sif@columbia.edu\nto apply\nCurrently registered Columbia College\, Columbia Engineering\, or General Studies rising sophomores\, juniors\, and seniors who are in good academic and disciplinary standing with at least a 3.0 GPA\, are eligible to receive a Columbia Undergraduate Startup Internship Fund to offset living expenses. \nWhat do you need?  You must already be a recipient of Columbia grant-based financial aid\, and have secured an unpaid or low paid (less than minimum wage) startup internship prior to the application deadline. \nWhen is the deadline?  April 12\, 2017
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/columbia-undergraduate-startup-internship-fund/
LOCATION:NY
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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SUMMARY:Innovation Grant Info Session: Sizing Markets & Projecting Budgets
DESCRIPTION:Love often blinds novice entrepreneurs.  They become enamored with their technology or business model almost to a fault.  There’s nothing wrong with that per se.  Passion is an important component in launching a startup.  However\, if founders ignore the financial model that accompanies the business model\, their lunch will be more of a sad fizzle. \nMichael Lopez will help you add financial viability to your startup story.  When you submit your innovation grant summary\, you’ll need to include those aspects that will be most relevant to potential investors – even if fundraising is a long way off. Michael will help you gain an understanding how to build a credible story through numbers. \nMicheal Lopez\, Partner at EisnerAmper\nAbout Michael\nMichael Lopez is a Partner at EisnerAmper and has more than 25 years of experience relating to a broad range of audit\, accounting\, tax\, and finance issues. Michael’s clientele includes software companies\, Internet commerce\, IT services companies\, telecommunications providers\, magazine and book publishers\, graphic communication companies\, and various sports\, media and entertainment entities. He is a member of the firm’s Private Business Services Group. Michael is a past recipient of the New York Enterprise Report’s Best Accountant for Growing Businesses (Technology Industry) Award.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/innovation-grant-info-session-sizing-markets-projecting-budgets/
LOCATION:Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio\, 490 Riverside Dr.\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, 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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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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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170202T203000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20170110T183000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20170110T203000
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SUMMARY:The Next Wave of Corporate Entrepreneurship with Steve Blank. What Comes After Innovation Theater?
DESCRIPTION:Join Columbia Business School Executive Education and\nColumbia Entrepreneurship for an evening with \nSteve Blank\nin conversation with \nProfessor Rita D. McGrath\, Columbia Business School and\nBrian Murray\, President and CEO\, HarperCollins Publishers\n\nThe Next Wave of Corporate Entrepreneurship\nWhat Comes After Innovation Theater?\nHosted by \nGoodwin Procter\, LLP\nOffices of Goodwin Procter\, New York Times Building\n620 8th Avenue\, 26th Floor \nCorporate entrepreneurship is a very hot topic these days.  Despite all the talk\, however\, actual innovation performance comes nowhere near to delivering on its promise.  We are perhaps five years into the latest flurry of excitement about the prospects for innovation-fueled growth.  Companies have traveled to Silicon Valley in droves\, sponsored innovation boot camps\, trained innovation ninjas\, and otherwise promised their stakeholders that innovation is front and center on their agendas. \nAnd yet. \nEvidence suggests much of this activity is just ‘Innovation Theater’.  Indeed\, how many corporations focus their cultures around an innovation playbook\, and train all staff in innovation practices. \nIn a recent McKinsey study\, fully 94% of executives surveyed reported that they were unhappy with their organization’s ability to innovate.  Similar research shows that corporations are spending a lot more of their profits on things like share buybacks and dividends than they are on innovation. \nWhat’s next for corporate innovation? \nColumbia University’s Senior Fellow for Entrepreneurship\, Steve Blank is a retired eight-time serial entrepreneur-turned-educator and author.  He has changed the way entrepreneurs around the world build their startups. His bestselling The Startup Owner’s Manual\, and his earlier seminal work\, The Four Steps to the Epiphany are both credited with launching the Lean Startup movement. His Lean LaunchPad class at Stanford\, Berkeley\, and Columbia has redefined how Universities approach entrepreneurship.  His Innovation Corps class for the National Science Foundation forever changed how the U.S. commercializes science. \nProfessor Rita Gunther McGrath is a globally recognized expert on strategy\, innovation\, and growth with an emphasis on corporate entrepreneurship. Her work and ideas help CEOs and senior executives chart a pathway to success in today’s rapidly changing and volatile environments. Ms. McGrath was named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Business Thinkers by Thinkers50 in 2015 and 2013. Thinkers50 presented Rita with the #1 award for Strategy\, the Distinguished Achievement Award (2013). She has also been inducted into the Strategic Management Society “Fellows” in recognition of her impact on the field. \nProfessor McGrath teaches Leading Strategic Growth and Change and will be launching Mastering Corporate Entrepreneurship\, an online\, seven-week executive education course in January.  Registration is currently open. \nBrian Murray is President and Chief Executive Officer of HarperCollins Publishers. Since being appointed CEO in 2008\, Murray has led the transformation of HarperCollins from a traditional print publishing company focused only on English language publishing\, to a dynamic print and digital publisher with broad expertise in foreign language publishing and more than $350M in digital revenues. Murray has led six acquisitions including Thomas Nelson and Harlequin. The acquisition of Harlequin in 2014 extended the company’s global platform and digital presence\, resulting in the ability to publish in more than 30 languages and publishing operations in a dozen new countries. The Thomas Nelson acquisition in 2012 allowed for the formation of the HarperCollins Christian Publishing division\, positioning HarperCollins as the leading publisher of Christian content in the world.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/next-wave-corporate-entrepreneurship-steve-blank-comes-innovation-theater/
LOCATION:Goodwin Proctor\, LLC\, New York Times Building\, 620 8th Avenue\, 26th Floor\, Manhattan\, 10018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161027
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SUMMARY:Columbia Giving Day
DESCRIPTION:Columbia Entrepreneurship is all about innovation.  That’s why we support some of the most brilliant innovators in the world: Columbia student and young alumni entrepreneurs. On Giving Day\, we ask you to support us.  Please Give On Oct 26th. \nFor Giving Day — **during one 24-hour period on October 26** — Columbians come together to support programs and initiatives they find most meaningful.  Gifts are then amplified by challenge match funds from Columbia University Trustees. \nRemember\, your gift to **Columbia Entrepreneurship benefits the entire community of student and alumni entrepreneurs** across every Columbia school\, student club\, and institution. \nSo please give a gift on October 26th and help support the next generation of business leaders and innovators. Sign Me Up!  I’d Like to Support Entrepreneurship at Columbia. \nFor questions about how funds directly benefit Columbia entrepreneurs across the Columbia Community\, write us at entrepreneurship@columbia.edu.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/columbia-giving-day/
LOCATION:On Line Event
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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SUMMARY:Mini Conference: Real Estate Tech Unbundled
DESCRIPTION:Join\nColumbia Entrepreneurship\, Columbia GSAPP’s Real Estate Development Program and Metaprop NYC for our\nAnnual Fall Entrepreneurship Mini Conference\nFeaturing Panel Discussions\, Startup Demos and a Student-Alumni Networking Reception\nReal Estate Tech Unbundled\n\nWith\n\nAmol Sarva\, Ph.D.ʼ96CC\, Founder & CEO Knotel\n&\nMarc Hollidayʼ90GSAPP\, CEO of SL Green Realty Corp.\n\nREGISTER NOW\nModerated by\nZach Aarons ‘13BUS Co-Founder MetaProp\nSeptember 29th 2016\n6:30 to 8:30 pm\nConvene Conference Center (website)\n237 Park Avenue (@45th btwn Park & Lex\, Lobby Level)\nRegister Now\nReal Estate\, one of mankind’s oldest and largest industries\, is undergoing a profound unbundling and technological transformation.  Accelerating this trend is the phenomenon of Real Estate Tech Startups which have seen a 100% increase in investment in the past year\, raising $1.37B in Q2 of 2016 alone. \nHistorically\, the dynamics of the Real Estate industry had been very stable\, with legendary dynastic families and well established public REITs dominating the marketplace.  However\, we are now seeing a a massive tech disruption that is challenging longstanding RE models. \nEach niche in the RE sector (i.e. commercial\, residential\, property management\, consumer and smart buildings) now has its own specialized applications. New startups are popping up left and right\, launching innovative marketing disintermediation technology\, drones\, augmented reality platforms and 3D printing. \nMini-Conference: Real Estate Tech Unbundled \nColumbia Entrepreneurship\, in partnership with Metaprop NYC and the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture\, Planning and Preservation’s Real Estate Development Program is hosting a mini conference that will unpack and explore the exploding dynamics of an industry in flux. \nTwo panels\, a demo session with Columbia-founded real estate startups\, and an alumni-student networking session are planned.  Light snacks\, beer and wine will be served. \n\nFirst Panel: “The Founders”\, moderated by Metaprop NYC’s Zach Aarons\n\nAmol Sarva Ph.D. ’96CC\, Founder & CEO of Knotel\nStu Ellman\, Columbia Business School professor & co-founder of RRE Ventures\nJonathan Wasserstrum ‘12BUS\, co-founder and CEO TheSquareFoot\nSusannah Vila ‘15BUS\, TechStars ’15\, founder of Flip\n\n\n\n\nSecond Panel: “The Practitioners”\n\nMarc Holliday ʼ90GSAPP Columbia Trustee\, CEO\, SL Green Realty Corp\nRobert Entin EVP & CIO\, Vornado Realty Trust\nJamie von Klemperer President\, Kohn Peterson Fox\nDenis Hickey\, CEO Lendlease\, Americas\n\n\n\nHosted by
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/4612/
LOCATION:Convene\, 237 Park Avenue\, New York\, 10017\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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SUMMARY:Suspend Your Student Loan Payments While You Grow Your Venture
DESCRIPTION:Lunch & Learn with SoFi’s Entrepreneurship Program\nJoin Amanda Wood (CBS ’14)\, Director at SoFi\, on Thursday 7/21 at 11:30 am ET for a lunch and learn session to learn more about SoFi’s story\, student loan refinancing options\, and how SoFi’s Entrepreneur Program can help you build your business. \nAbout SoFi’s Entrepreneur Program:\nThe SoFi Entrepreneur Program (EP) was created to help founders build businesses under the burden of student loan debt. Program benefits include 6-12 months of deferment on student loan payments\, mentorship\, workshops\, and access to investors. SoFi’s EP has already helped 60+ entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs with student loans are encouraged to apply at sofi.com/EP. Please see the attached flyer for more information. \nAbout SoFi:\nSoFi is the country’s largest provider of student loan refinancing. Since starting in 2011 at Stanford GSB\, they’ve funded $10B+ in loans to 150\,000+ members. \nAbout SoFi Student Loan Refinancing:\nIf you have student loans\, SoFi may be able to save you thousands. SoFi refinances federal and/or private student loans at low rates. The average borrower saves $19K over the life of their loan by refinancing. Get a $200 welcome bonus when you refinance through sofi.com/schoolsave.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/suspend-student-loan-payments-grow-venture/
LOCATION:Columbia Startup Lab\, 69 Charlton St. @ Varick\, NYC\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20160720T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20160720T153000
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SUMMARY:Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify State Secrets
DESCRIPTION:Whether official secrecy is random or predictable is a matter of great public controversy. But the question has not been explored using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods.\nJoin Columbia University History Professor Matt Connelly for a discussion about using data science to compare political narratives with the real historical record. \nAdmission is Free\nRegister Today\nThis event is co-hosted by Text.IQ\nArtificial Intelligence to Identify State Secrets \nAbstract: \nWhether official secrecy is random or predictable is a matter of great public controversy. But the question has not been explored using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning methods. We report the results of an experiment with nearly one million State Department cables from the 1970s to identify diplomatic communications that were originally classified as containing sensitive national security information. In analyzing the data\, we found that cables classified as secret were disproportionately likely to have been lost or corrupted. But even with incomplete data\, we were able to train algorithms to identify 90% of classified cables with <11% of false positives. \nMatthew Connelly is a professor of international and global history at Columbia. He is also the principal investigator of History Lab\, a project to apply data science to the problem of preserving the public record and accelerating its release. He received his B.A. from Columbia and his Ph.D. from Yale. His publications include “A Diplomatic Revolution: Algeria’s Fight for Independence and the Origins of the Post-Cold War Era”\, which won five prizes\, and Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population\, an Economist and Financial Times book of the year. He has provided commentary on international affairs for The Atlantic Monthly\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and Le Monde\, and has hosted radio documentaries for BBC Radio.
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/using-artificial-intelligence-identify-state-secrets/
LOCATION:Columbia Startup Lab\, 69 Charlton St. @ Varick\, NYC\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160406T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160406T180000
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SUMMARY:Data Science Day at Columbia University
DESCRIPTION:The Columbia Data Science Institute\npresents the\nSecond Annual Data On A Mission Event \nData Science Day at Columbia University\nWednesday\, April 6th\n9:00 am to 5:00 pm\nRoone Arledge Auditorium\n Lerner Hall on the Morningside Campus of\n Columbia University\nResister Today\nJoin us for demos and lightning talks by Columbia researchers presenting their latest work in data science. The event is designed to foster collaboration between innovators in academia and industry. \nOpening Keynote: Dan Doctoroff\, CEO\, Sidewalk Labs\nDan Doctoroff is the CEO of Sidewalks Labs\, an urban innovation company that develops technology at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds to improve city life for residents\, businesses and governments. He is the former CEO of Bloomberg LP and Deputy Mayor of Economic Development and Rebuilding for the City of New York under Mayor Michael Bloomberg. \nNetworking Reception (Meet\, Greet and Eat): To close the day\, we will host a reception. Students\, faculty and industry are encouraged to attend. Details TBA. \nSTAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS!\nMore information: datascience@columbia.edu\nwww.datascience.columbia.edu \n 
URL:https://entrepreneurship.columbia.edu/event/2345/
LOCATION:Columbia Startup Lab\, 69 Charlton St. @ Varick\, NYC\, 10014\, United States
CATEGORIES:Columbia Entrepreneurship,Columbia E’ship
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