Columbia Entrepreneurship

Third Thursday: VC 101 by Curtis L. Mo
2018-03-22 17:30 - 19:30 UTC
OPEN TO ALL
Thursday, March 22
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM
524 Mudd
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Third Thursday is a recurring open forum and networking and info session for the Columbia University entrepreneurship community. It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni the opportunity to hear ideas from across campus, form teams, and explore career options. You’ll hear from Columbia alumni and other experts on their experiences working in the field, how they’ve applied their Columbia experience in their careers, and more.

Join us on Thursday, March 22 to hear from Curtis L. Mo, who will cover topics on venture capitals and funding. Curtis Mo has represented emerging growth companies, major public companies, investment banks, venture capital funds and private equity funds in hundreds of public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, buyouts, venture capital financings and other complex transactions. He has extensive experience in corporate governance matters and regularly acts as general outside counsel to public and private companies at all stages of development, particularly in the technology, life sciences, clean energy technology and consumer sectors.

For more details about the event, click here.

Have an announcement or idea to pitch to the group? Contact us (seaseship@columbia.edu) in advance and come prepared to pitch it!

Making Markets Work for Underserved Communities: Micro and Small Enterprise Development
2018-03-20 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL

Tuesday, March 20
6:00–8:00 p.m.

Columbia Business School
3022 Broadway, Uris Hall, Room 333
New York, NY 10027
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How can we make markets more accessible and competitive to enable individuals to find their own way out of poverty? How do we effectively promote entrepreneurship through government policy, private sector business practices, and social sector advocacy? What are the risks and challenges for micro and small enterprises in rural settings?
Join us for a ten-minute film screening of Zaza Rising and a panel discussion on making markets work for underserved communities through micro and small enterprise development, featuring:

Ambassador Valentine Rugwabiza, Permanent Representative to Rwanda’s UN Mission
Karen Yelick, CEO of Indego Africa
Leslie Labruto, Global Energy Lead at Acumen
Lora Romano, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager at Blue Marble Organic Ice Cream
George Franklin ’18BUS, Founder of Baobab Circle
Brigit Helms, Senior Advisor at DAI

About Zaza Rising
This short, ten-minute documentary tells the timely story of one Rwandan woman’s courage, strength, and hope for a better tomorrow. Christine Nyirahabimana started a small bakery in rural Rwanda, hiring 10 HIV positive, single mothers as her employees. Despite incredible odds stacked against her, she is a beacon of light for her community and an inspiring example of how one individual can effect change and break generational cycles of poverty through social entrepreneurship.

Patents, Licenses, and Science-based Startups: Tech Transfer at Columbia and Beyond
2018-03-14 16:30 - 18:30
OPEN TO ALL
Wednesday, March 14th
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Davis Auditorium – CEPSR Room 412
530 West 120th Street
Register here

About the Event: Each year, Columbia University researchers create over 400 scientific inventions, which turn into over 200 new patent applications, over 100 licenses to industry, and over 20 new IP-backed startups. These inventions eventually save and improve the lives of people around the world, and the revenue generated flows back to the inventors and university to help catalyze new research breakthroughs in the future. In this interactive presentation, Columbia Tech Ventures’ Executive Director Orin Herskowitz, will discuss how all of this happens at Columbia and our peer universities; the ways that modern universities are supporting the creation of new startups based on scientific research; and the challenges entrepreneurs and investors often face while bringing these new technologies to market.

About the Speaker: Orin Herskowitz, Executive Director, Columbia Technology Ventures; Senior Vice President for Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

Orin Herskowitz is the Senior VP of Intellectual Property and Tech Transfer for Columbia University, as well as, Executive Director of Columbia Technology Ventures (CTV). He also is an Adjunct Professor, teaching an Intellectual Property for Entrepreneurs course. He has served on boards or served as the Principle Investigator for a number of innovation and entrepreneurship-focused initiatives, including the NYC Media Lab, the PowerBridgeNY clean energy proof-of-concept center, the Columbia Coulter Translational Partnership, the NYC ACRE technology incubator, and Harlem Biospace; has been a peer reviewer for innovation and entrepreneurship awards for the National Science Foundation and the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities; and is a frequent speaker at IP- and technology-focused events in NYC and across the country. He is a board member for the Center for American Entrepreneurship, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit research, policy, and advocacy organization engaging policymakers in Washington and across the nation regarding the critical importance of entrepreneurs and start-ups to innovation, economic growth, and job creation. Orin is also an appointee to a two-year term on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE), a Federal committee that advises the U.S. Secretary of Commerce on issues related to accelerating innovation, enhancing entrepreneurship, and expanding workforce skill development.

Questions? Contact techventures@columbia.edu

SXSW Columbia Alumni Networking Reception
2018-03-10 16:30 - 18:30
Presented by Columbia Business School and the Alumni Club of Austin
Saturday, March 10, 2018 from 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Moonshine Patio Bar and Grill, 303 Red River Street, Austin, Texas

Free of charge

Join Columbia alumni for a networking reception at the SXSW festival. This event will be a great opportunity to interact with your peers in a variety of industries from all over the country. There will be a cash bar and complimentary appetizers.
Please RSVP here by Friday, March 9.
If you have any questions, please contact Matt Fox’02 at mlf87@caa.columbia.edu

Social Entrepreneurship Lightning Talks & Panel Discussion
2018-03-07 18:00 - 20:00
OPEN TO ALL

Join SIPA for an evening of Lightning Talks with social entrepreneurs, who have grown their startups, projects, ideas side-hustles from the ground up.
Learn about the tech behind what it takes to build a successful mobile iOS app, and hear about creating a global think tank to empower women and what it takes to start a 501(c)3 to teach kids to code.

Speakers
Jonathan Uy, CTO of Shine, former Mobile Lead for DoSomething.org (Columbia alum!)
Jennifer Ilanolo, Founder of Concordia Project
Rebecca Garcia, Co-founder of CoderDojo NYC

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2018-03-07 15:00 - 17:00, 2018-02-21 15:00 - 17:00, 2018-02-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL IN THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY
Do you have an idea and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio. Teams of Columbia affiliates are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.

Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference
2018-03-02 09:00 - 14:30
RSVP for the WiDS Conference at SAP Hudson Yards
Sign up now to attend! WiDS is a global conference movement and community, taking place in 120+ locations during the month of March 2018.
Venue: SAP Next-Gen, 10 Hudson Yards, 48th Floor, New York NY-10001
Date & Time: March 2nd 9am – 2:30pm
Registration Required – Sign up here
The Global WiDS Conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide, regardless of gender, and support women in the field. This annual one-day technical conference provides an opportunity to hear about the latest data science related research and applications in a broad set of domains. All genders are invited to participate in the conference, which features exclusively women speakers.
Speaker Highlights:

Winnie Chang
Parinaz Vahabzadeh, Head of Analytics Labs at Coach
Laura Norén, Postdoctoral Scholar and Adjunct Professor at NYU’s Center for Data Science
Cathy Cooper, Senior Director for Enterprise Analytics at SAP
Claudia Perlich, Senior Data Scientist for Two Sigma
Roxanna Geambasu, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University
Ann Rosenberg, SVP and Global Head of SAP Next-Gen
Nami Choe, Head of the Platforms Data & Measurement Team at Google
Maritsa Toro, Digitas at Publicis Groupe
Sinziana Eckner, JP Morgan Chase
Hannah Davis, Creative Technologist + Musician, programmer and generative musician
Sinead Kaiya, COO at SAP P&I
Frida Polli, CEO & Co-Founder at Pymetrics

Join the digital conversation on Twitter with @WiDS_Conference using the hashtag #WiDS2018, #SAPWiDS & #sheinnovates.

Artists Using Data, Talk Series | Luke DuBois: “Sex, Lies, and Data Mining”
2018-03-01 10:30 - 11:30
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Prentis Hall Rm 101
Stemming from his investigations of “time-lapse phonography,” his work is a sonic and encyclopedic relative to time-lapse photography. Just as a long camera exposure fuses motion into a single image, his projects reveal the average sonority, visual language, and vocabulary in music, film, text, or cultural information.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tamer Fund for Social Ventures
2018-03-01
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures (“the Fund”) provides seed grants to nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid early-stage Columbia University affiliated social and environmental ventures. Preference will be given to start-up ventures that have the potential to be financially self-sustaining in the longer term.
Read more about the criteria and process HERE.
For questions, please reach out to tamersvfund@gmail.com.

Data-Driven Discovery and Decision Making - A Paradigm Shift for Large-Scale Experimental Science
2018-02-27 11:00 - 12:15
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
11:00AM-12:15PM
CEPSR 414, DAVIS AUDITORIUM

“Data-Driven Discovery and Decision Making – A Paradigm Shift for Large-Scale Experimental Science”
New instrument technologies are enabling a new generation of in-situ and in-operando experiments, with extremely fine spatial and temporal resolution, that allows researchers to observe as physics, chemistry and biology are happening. These new methodologies go hand in hand with an exponential growth in data volumes and rates – petabyte scale data collections and terabyte/sec. At the same time, scientists are pushing for a paradigm shift. As they can now observe processes in intricate details, they want to analyze, interpret and control those processes. Given the multitude of voluminous, heterogenous data streams involved in every single experiment, novel real-time, data-driven analysis and decision support approaches are needed to realize their vision. This talk will discuss state-of-the-art streaming analysis for experimental facilities, its challenges and early successes. It will present work currently carried out at Brookhaven National Laboratory and identify areas for collaboration.
Kerstin Kleese van Dam is the director of the Computational Science Initiative (CSI) at the Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), in Long Island, NY. With 100 petabytes, BNL hosts the second largest scientific data archive in the US and the fourth largest in the world, it processes annually in access of 400 petabytes of scientific results.
CSI conducts leading edge computer science and applied mathematics research to address the associated analysis challenges, specific focus areas are machine learning, visual analytics and programming models.

Before she joined BNL Kerstin was associated division director at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Director of Computing at University College London Medical School and Data Management Group Lead at the Science and Technology Facilities Council in the UK.

Hosted by Prof. Steven Nowick (Dept. of Computer Science)

The Future of Investing: Fintech NYC
2018-02-22 18:30 - 19:00
Join Dean Mary C. Boyce, Professor Xunyu Zhou and Addepar CEO, Eric Poirier (SEAS ’04) as they discuss how new advances in technology are transforming traditional investing practices. Is Artificial Intelligence or Intelligence Augmentation the answer to making better financial decisions? Zhou and Poirier are two experts offering insight on the breakthroughs taking place and shaping the future of the finance industry and beyond.
Thursday, February 22, 2018
JP Morgan Chase & Co.
383 Madison Ave.
12th Floor Conference Center
New York, NY 10017
6:30 p.m. doors | 7:00 p.m. discussion
8:30 p.m. networking reception
Tickets are $10
Includes beer, wine, and heavy hors d’oeuvres
REGISTER HERE

DEADLINE: Columbia Venture Competition
2018-02-22
YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A PIECE OF $200,000
APPLY HERE
This year the Columbia Venture Competition (CVC) has four challenges but you may only enter one. The descriptions, rules, and eligibility guidelines are listed below. Each challenge will split $50,000 among the top three winners. Three of the challenges are open to students and recent alumni (five years or less from their most current Columbia degree) from any Columbia-affiliated school, including Barnard and Teachers College. The Undergraduate Challenge, sponsored by Columbia College, is open to all current Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies, and Barnard College undergrads. CVC judges will come from Columbia’s worldwide alumni community from Beijing to Brooklyn and will represent diverse backgrounds and a wide-ranging set of expertise. START YOUR EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES NOW. THE ONLINE COMPETITION PLATFORM OPENS ON FEBRUARY 10, SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 22.
APPLY

The American Bionics Project: Promoting Revolutionary Technology for People with Disabilities
2018-02-20 18:00 - 20:00
Facilitated by Steven Galeazzi ’10BUS
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio
Riverside Church
490 Riverside Drive, Room 430
New York, NY 10027
RSVP →
Refreshments included with RSVP
There is a gap between the needs of people with physical disabilities in the United States and the solutions available to meet those needs. What if technologies for people with physical disabilities could be profitable while also helping those in need? What if they could be designed not only to serve people with disabilities, but also to spur innovation for broader consumer markets?
By providing early stage funding and business advisement, The American Bionics Project will serve as the catalyst for advanced technologies and medical solutions for people with physical disabilities.
Join this spark workshop to help The American Bionics Project explore resources, connections, and potential solutions to help their social venture.

Data for Good
2018-02-20 17:30 - 19:30
LOCATION
Bloomberg Center, Cornell Tech
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044
February 20, 2018
Reception: 5:30pm-6:30pm
Talk: 6:30pm-7:30pm
Every field has data. We use data to discover new knowledge, to interpret the world, to make decisions, and even to predict the future. The recent convergence of big data, cloud computing, and novel machine learning algorithms and statistical methods is causing an explosive interest in data science and its applicability to all fields. This convergence has already enabled the automation of some tasks that better human performance. The novel capabilities we derive from data science will drive our cars, treat disease, and keep us safe. At the same time, such capabilities risk leading to biased, inappropriate, or unintended action. The design of data science solutions requires both excellence in the fundamentals of the field and expertise to develop applications which meet human challenges without creating even greater risk.
The Data Science Institute at Columbia University promotes “Data for Good”: using data to address societal challenges and bringing humanistic perspectives as—not after—new science and technology is invented. Started in 2012, the Institute is now a university-level institute representing over 250 affiliated faculty from 12 different schools across campus. Data science literally touches every corner of the university.
In this talk, Jeannette Wing, Director of the Data Science Institute, will present the vision on how the Institute plans to address some of the key challenges and opportunities of data science, highlighting educational and research activities, as well as future initiatives that may directly impact the data science community at Columbia, New York City, and beyond.

Data for Good
2018-02-16 12:00 - 13:30
OPEN TO ALL

Friday, February 16, 2018
12:00PM-1:30PM
CEPSR 750

In this talk, we discuss a systematic evaluation of the impact of financial regulations concerning the collateralization of derivative trades on systemic risk – a topic that has been vigorously discussed since the financial crisis in 2007/08. Experts often disagree on the efficacy of these regulations. Compounding this problem banks regard their trade data required for a full analysis as proprietary. We adapt a simulation technology combining advances in graph theory to randomly generate entire financial systems sampled from realistic distributions with a novel open source risk engine to compute risks in financial systems under different regulations. This allows us to consistently evaluate, predict and optimize the impact of financial regulations on all levels – from a single trade to systemic risk – before it is implemented. The resulting data set is accessible to contemporary data science techniques like data mining, anomaly detection and visualization. We find that collateralization reduces the costs of resolving a financial system in crisis, yet it does not change the distribution of those costs and can have adverse effects on individual participants in extreme situations.
Remote participants can register for online streaming in advance at:
https://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/meeting/register/4e9e74be7f16abb08c34be5db4a05ad8
Jointly sponsored by the Data Science Institute and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy

Third Thursday Series | Startup A to Z
2018-02-15 17:30 - 19:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Thursday, February 15 (Mudd 524, 5:30pm) will feature Brandon Maier, who will cover “crafting your executive summary” as well as a number of other topics in Startup A to Z. Brandon Maier has extensive experience building financial and marketing strategies for startup companies. He has been part of two venture backed startup teams, including serving as Financial Controller for the Winklevoss-backed bitcoin exchange BitInstant and founding Jozii.com, a student-based job matching service which amassed over 100,000 student users in the United States.
REGISTER

Artists Using Data, Talk Series | Gene Kogan: Machine Learning In the Composer's Future Toolkit
2018-02-15 10:30 - 11:30
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Prentis Hall Rm 101
In this talk, Kogan reviews the evolving application of machine learning to computational and new media art, with an emphasis on audio, demonstrating how new approaches to software can augment and counterpoint the normal compositional process.

DEADLINE: Hult Prize Ivy
2018-02-14
Hult Prize has case competitions from the local to global scale, where the winning team will receive $1,000,000 seed capital to implement their idea to create impactful change. Hult Prize Ivy will be a division of the Hult Prize within the Ivy League allowing teams win Hult Prize Ivy’s several-thousand-dollar cash prize and fast-track into an 8-week Accelerator program in Castle in London to have the opportunity to pitch their idea at the United Nations and have the chance to compete to win the $1,000,000.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis until March 14th 11:59pm. For more information, please feel free to visit www.HultPrizeIvy.org or www.HultPrize.org, or email info@hultprizeivy.com.

Startup Grind
2018-02-12 - 2018-02-14
OPEN TO ALL
With 5,000 founders and investors, more than 40 keynote and fireside sessions, and over 50 exhibiting startups, this is Startup Grind’s largest event ever. Current students receive a reduced price.
Check out the agenda here.

APPLICATIONS OPEN: Columbia Venture Competition
2018-02-10
YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A PIECE OF $200,000
APPLY HERE
This year the Columbia Venture Competition (CVC) has four challenges but you may only enter one. The descriptions, rules, and eligibility guidelines are listed below. Each challenge will split $50,000 among the top three winners. Three of the challenges are open to students and recent alumni (five years or less from their most current Columbia degree) from any Columbia-affiliated school, including Barnard and Teachers College. The Undergraduate Challenge, sponsored by Columbia College, is open to all current Columbia College, Columbia Engineering, General Studies, and Barnard College undergrads. CVC judges will come from Columbia’s worldwide alumni community from Beijing to Brooklyn and will represent diverse backgrounds and a wide-ranging set of expertise. START YOUR EXECUTIVE SUMMARIES NOW. THE ONLINE COMPETITION PLATFORM OPENS ON FEBRUARY 10, SUBMISSION DEADLINE IS FEBRUARY 20.
APPLY

She Opened the Door - Columbia University Women's Conference (Event)
2018-02-09 - 2018-02-11
OPEN TO COLUMBIA
In February, hundreds will convene at She Opened the Door for a weekend of celebrating, learning from, and expanding horizons with fellow Columbia alumnae who are making a difference in our world.
We look forward to welcoming back dozens of incredible alumnae to Columbia to speak at this event, including Abigail Disney ’87, ’94GSAS, A’Lelia Bundles ’76JRN, Claire Shipman ’86CC, ’94SIPA, and more.
On February 11, 2018 at 1:15 p.m., a livestream of the conversation with Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be available.
Check back here for more information and the livestream link.

DEADLINE: The Point 25 Initiative Spring Series Application
2018-02-04
The Point 25 Initiative matches the most promising women-led companies with amazing C-level Advisors for their Advisory Boards. The ‘Point 25’ name refers to the 0.25% equity incentive that an advisor often receives for serving in the role. It’s based on the belief that – while money is a large part of what determines the success of a company – having the right network of helpful and influential advisors can really propel a business forward. This is also an effort to facilitate advisory board roles for prominent leaders who wish to give back to the startup ecosystem.

Applications for the Point 25 Spring Series are now open!
APPLY HERE

Please share with women-led startups you’d recommend and ask them to cite your name on their application.
Help spread the word in your network using the links on Twitter and LinkedIn below.
C-Level professionals interested in being profiled at future events can express interest via the link on the website.

The deadline for entrepreneurs to apply is February 4. Applications will be reviewed and acceptances extended on a rolling basis.

Tamer Fund for Social Ventures Information Session
2018-01-30 18:30 - 19:30
6:30-7:30 p.m.
GSAPP Incubator
231 Bowery, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10002
RSVP
*Refreshments provided from Tamer Fund portfolio venture Eat Offbeat with RSVP
Learn about upcoming Tamer Fund for Social Ventures deadlines and the application process, and network with other social and environmental venture teams. You will also hear from portfolio members Rachel Barnard, ’11GSAPP, founder, Young New Yorkers; Justin Garrett Moore, ’04GSAPP, advisor, Made in Brownsville; and Manal Kahi, ’15SIPA, co-founder, Eat Offbeat, as they share their ventures’ missions and experiences working with the center.
The Tamer Fund for Social Ventures provides seed grants of up to $25,000 to nonprofit, for-profit, and hybrid early-stage social and environmental ventures. Funding is made available to around seven ventures each year.
To be eligible, ventures must be led by Columbia University students, alumni, faculty or researchers, or be advised and have significant involvement by Columbia University faculty or researchers.

The Transparency Series - Series 5, Networks (Seminar)
2018-01-27 17:00 - 19:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
A unique set of seminars and hands-on workshops that bring new technology and design ideas to the Columbia Journalism community. The goal is simple — help students learn new ways to find and tell stories, new ways to inform and entertain. Each topic will commence with a Friday evening panel discussion and will follow with a Saturday hands-on workshop centered around building.
Students attending three of the seminar-workshops over the course of the year will receive a graduation award indicating the extra breadth they sought out during their time at the J-School.
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The world is a complicated place, and sometimes it’s not the things themselves that’s the story, but the connections between the things. two speakers whose projects transform these connections between things into first-rate journalism. The first is Kevin Connor, the director of the Public Accountability Initiative (PAI) and co-founder of LittleSis.org (think the opposite of Big Brother), an online wiki database tracking information on powerful people and organizations. Then we will hear from Mar Cabra, head of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Data & Research Unit. She led a global team from ICIJ analyzing the 11.5 million documents in the famed Panama Papers leak.

The Transparency Series - Series 5, Networks (Workshop)
2018-01-27 17:00 - 19:00
OPEN TO COLUMBIA JOURNALISM STUDENTS
A unique set of seminars and hands-on workshops that bring new technology and design ideas to the Columbia Journalism community. The goal is simple — help students learn new ways to find and tell stories, new ways to inform and entertain. Each topic will commence with a Friday evening panel discussion and will follow with a Saturday hands-on workshop centered around building.
Students attending three of the seminar-workshops over the course of the year will receive a graduation award indicating the extra breadth they sought out during their time at the J-School.
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In this installment, we will consider data that describe networks of people and organizations (often called “graphs”). These are structures that don’t fit easily into a spreadsheet — they encode relationships. Who knows who? Who worked for the same company? Who donated to or lobbied for which campaign? Who retweets who? These kinds of data let us connect the dots between people and organizations. Where are conflicts of interest? Can we track money or influence? On social media, can we see important “influencers” or visualize groups of people who share specific kinds of content?

Immigration and Entrepreneurship (Third Thursday Event Series)
2018-01-25 17:30 - 19:30
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Third Thursday is a recurring open forum and networking and info session for the Columbia University entrepreneurship community. It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni the opportunity to hear ideas from across campus, form teams, and explore career options. You’ll hear from Columbia alumni and other experts on their experiences working in the field, how they’ve applied their Columbia experience in their careers, and more.
Thursday, January 25 (technically Fourth Thursday instead of Third Thursday due to the late start of the semester) will feature Megan Kludt, an attorney at Curran & Berger, LLP, a boutique law firm specializing in all areas of immigration, including business, achievement, investment, family, and humanitarian bases for immigration status.
Megan is very knowledgable on visa options for students after graduation, and specializes in complex immigration cases in the areas of business, academia, scientific research, and the arts. Additionally, she was selected by the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) to provide emergency legal aid to children at the US/Mexico border and was honored as one of AILA New England’s Pro Bono Champions in 2016.
Megan holds a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, a Master of International Relations from Boston University, and a JD with an international concentration from Boston University School of Law.
At this month’s Third Thursday event, Megan will discuss

Options and requirements for various visas, such as: J1, O-1B, and H-1B
Visa options and NYC/NYS immigration resources for foreign startup founders
How much of an impact a lawyer/representation has on a visa application
How to find out whether or not a startup is qualified to help employees file for work visas
The process of hiring and granting a visa for a non-USA citizen that just finished school in the USA
The STEM extension of the OPT for foreign entrepreneurs launching startups (non-employed by existing and EVerify companies)
Shareholding issues that may caused by the immigration status of foreign entrepreneurs in start-up companies

Join us!
​Register here​

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2018-01-24 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
Do you have an idea and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio. Teams of Columbia affiliates are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.

Design Studio Open House
2018-01-19 15:00 - 17:00 | Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio, 490 Riverside Dr., New York, NY, 10027, United States
Friday, January 19th
3:00pm to 5:00pm
The Design Studio (Riverside Church Room 430)
Want to learn more about the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio? Stop by during our Open House to visit the space, meet our team, and learn more about how the Design Studio can help you in your projects, startup and life over the next year! Stop by anytime between 3 and 5pm; food and drink will be served.
If you have questions, please reach out to us at designstudio@columbia.edu.
