In addition to partnering with co-working spaces and business accelerators, EGFS participates in a number of events, workshops, and office hours at top tier universities including Stanford, Berkeley, USC, University of Washington, and NYU. Recently, I had the chance to sit through several mock pitches at Columbia’s Startup Lab in New York. Chris McGarry, Director of Entrepreneurship at Columbia Startup Lab, and David Ehrenberg, Founder and CEO of Early Growth Financial Services, coached and critiqued participants. I came away with these five pointers for startup founders. 1. Think long-term when it comes to your business plan. That means validating your assumptions with primary research and empirical evidence, including talking to other people in the industry as well as doing the work to develop customers. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is to go through the work of creating a budget and forecast, then never look at them again. A …
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