CSUF Entrepreneurship Scholarship Deadline: April 23 by 11:59pm

First, a video on how to apply for these scholarships https://youtu.be/LVnnnHS7V-g Purpura Family Entrepreneurial Scholarship Amount: $1,500 Established by: Bill Purpura Open to: All students currently developing a startup. Criteria:  For consideration, all startups must have a founding team in place. Startups must be for-profit. Application Procedure: Submission of a business plan and/or a pitch deck …

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Starting Entrepreneurs Should Find a Mentor

https://youtu.be/KlO5bjhJp2E A business mentor can help guide you in the right direction, increasing the odds of owning a successful startup. Overall, a mentor won't do all the work for you, but they will undoubtedly make the process easier. The entrepreneurship program has come along way since Sue Mehta was a student at CSUF.

Quarantine and Healthy Routines: Managing Our Mental Outlook | Special Event on Saturday April 10 from 2pm to 4pm

REGISTER TeamXHealth is excited to launch their first virtual conference in collaboration with the UCLA Center for East-West Medicine’s Body-Mind-Spirit Health Initiative's Conference Series. TeamXHealth:TeamXHealth, a 501 c(3) nonprofit organization run by an undergraduate student body at UCLA, aims to promote awareness of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Individuals who attend the conference will …

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How To Handle Exponential Growth In Your Startup

https://youtu.be/zycsxYzWULw What started out as a geodesic dome over a swimming pool to keep the heat inside during the winter, soon blossomed an entire product line of domes that are use for events, greenhouses, and shelters (to name just a few of its many uses). The founder, Jon Dietz walks us through his journey of …

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Learning to Say Why Not is Crucial for Growth as an Entrepreneur

https://youtu.be/0E5FpePERnw Janet Steiner's new startup Make Dust grew after she started to say "why not?" to more ideas. Every idea may not be perfect, but she can extract the best aspects of the scenario and use that to her advantage. Overall, Janet was pleased with her experience as an SBI Client and couldn't have been …

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CSUF Spring Economic Forecast 2021

REGISTER for free Please join us on April 21 at 11am for the 2021 Spring Economic Forecast - Pandemic Blues and Economic Clues: A post-pandemic, post-election, economic and real estate outlook. Hosted by the CBE Executive Council and the Woods Center for Economic Analysis and Forecasting. | Panel discussion on Orange County real estate moderated by …

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CSUF MBA Graduate’s Expected Monetary Value Tool Published – check it out!

One of my previous MBA students, an exceptional student really, Mrinmoy Dutta, has created a tool that has recently been published on ProjectManagement.com. You will need a PMI membership to access it but Mrinmoy has provided a summary of the tool, reprinted below. This tool is to assess and come up with a response strategies …

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Titans Talk Business | Stories of Entrepreneurship from CSUF Business Leaders

https://youtu.be/xD9uIFGAg5k This virtual talk featured Paul Wasserman ’87, co-founder/former CEO of Ebates.com and CSUF adjunct professor of criminal law; Ben Gold ’04, ’12, CEO, Good Funding, and Executive Council immediate past president; Laurie Resnick ’77, co-CEO of Rolling Greens; and Bryan Ruef, founder of 10-8 Systems. The alumni panel discussed the challenges and advantages of …

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