Columbia Entrepreneurship

Columbia Startup Lab Programming: How To Build A Financial Plan Investors Will Love
2015-12-01 12:30 - 14:30 UTC
How To Build A Financial Plan Investors Will Love
with
Early Growth Financial Services founder and CEO David Ehrenberg

Tuesday, December 1 @ 12:30 pm
@ The Columbia Startup Lab
Lunch will be provided
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Need some help defining your financial plan so that investors just can’t say no? If so, this is a can’t miss workshop for you!
If your financials aren’t telling a compelling story and you need help with financial projections and financial planning, please join us for this one-hour long session during which we’ll discuss the importance of milestone funding, the components of your financial model, top-down and bottom-up financial projections, creating your budget, and more.
David 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.
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.
After graduating from Georgetown University with degrees in accounting and finance, David started his career on Wall Street doing mergers and acquisitions work for Deloitte & Touche. He went on to earn his MBA from the University of Washington.
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Design Sprint: Developing Early Stage Startup Ideas
2015-11-13 13:00 - 15:00
Design Sprint: Developing Early Stage Startup Ideas
With Adam Royalty, Designer in Residence
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What: A two week sprint focusing on founder idea fit and customer exploration
When: Founder idea fit; Friday 11/13/15, 1pm — 3pm. Customer Exploration; Friday 11/20/15, 1pm — 3pm.
Where: Room 430 Riverside Church; There is a central elevator bank that you can assess from Claremont Street. Go to the fourth floor and turn left.
This sprint is designed for students who have a problem they are excited to solve or an idea they want to explore. This is also an opportunity for students who may not have an venture in mind but want to help work on someone else’s.
The first session will focus on flushing out ideas and figuring out how to use the strenghts of a founding team. Applying design tools to uncover needs and frame problems will highlight the second session.
Note: it is recommended, but not required, that people experience both sessions.

Columbia Startup Lab Programming: Build More, Build Faster Without Building Your Engineering Team
2015-11-04 17:00 - 19:00
Build More, Build Faster Without Building Your Engineering Team
With Amol Sarva ’98CC

Wednesday, November 4 @ 5:00 pm
@ The Columbia Startup Lab
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The limiting factor for today’s fast paced technology startups is access to quality engineers. Come hear serial creator Dr. Amol Sarva ’98CC share his tips and tricks for building more, faster with the same or fewer engineers.
Dr. Amol Sarva is an American technology entrepreneur who co-founded Peek and Virgin Mobile USA. He is currently developing a new cognitive enhancement technology called Halo Neuro and an application for better discussions called Knotable. He’s an advisor to Fon, the world’s largest wifi network. He also advises Payfone (mobile payments), Work Market (platform for labor resources), and Ouya (open source game console).
Amol co-founded Peek as its CEO through worldwide product launches and raised over $25 million from top venture capital firms including RRE Ventures and Bharti SoftBank (which acquired it in 2012). He’s an original member of the Founders’ Roundtable in New York, a group of 300+ venture-backed startup founders that has met monthly since 2006, and has touched dozens of VC-backed startups and many of the top founders in NYC. He has been named multiple times to the Silicon Alley 100 list of top New York entrepreneurs. He is a mentor for the NYC Seed venture capital fund’s SeedStart program. Amol received his Ph.D. from Stanford University and B.A. from Columbia University.
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