This was recorded a little while ago and features a conversation between Entrepreneurship Professor Travis Lindsay and CSUF student Ahad Hussain. This interview is part of a series called Titan Alumni Talks. Here's the intro and the recording is after: In this episode, we meet alumnus Travis Lindsay ‘07 ‘09, who currently serves as a [...]
CSUF Startup Incubator Testimonial – Vinay Kathuria, Founder of Shomee
Vinay Kathuria is the founder of Shomee, an event-based startup that aggregates virtual events tailored for families looking for interesting things to do online. The CSUF Startup Incubator helped Vinay land on this solution through an exhaustive customer discovery process that identified the true pain points customers were feeling. In a little over a month, [...]
This CSUF Startup Incubator Resident launched an event business a month ago and already has traction
We have been working with Vinay Kathuria, the founder of Shomee, for about six months now. A lot has changed since we first started working together and his original concept for an event-based business has had to make some dramatic pivots due in large part to the pandemic. How did he make this pivot? What [...]
CSUF Grads Nick Guillen and Nick Ajluni Making Waves in Hot Sauce Industry
We're kind of late to the party on this one but Nick Guillen and Nick Ajluni have created a sensation in the hot sauce industry with their company, TRUFF. Founded in 2017, TRUFF is a truffle infused hot sauce that has been a social media sensation pretty much from its founding. Oh, and they have [...]
CSUF’s Public Relations Student Society of America covered in OC Register
In the past we have worked with CSUF's PRSSA and they do great work. The students in this organization do not get paid nor do they get credit for their work at school but they get a lot of experience along the way. They work with companies to develop PR campaigns, social media calendars, and [...]
CSUF Startup Incubator Resident My Office Apps Partners with Meals on Wheels to Expand Meal Production for Home-bound Seniors
My Office Apps, a graduate of our CSUF Startup Incubator, is doing great things with it's SaaS platform with the latest being providing enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to Meals on Wheels San Francisco. The press release: My Office Apps, Inc. (MOA), an industry leader in business improvement software, today announced that Meals on Wheels [...]
CSUF Entrepreneurship Alumnus Justin Nukum ’15 Makes Hardkour Performance Approachable For All
Just saw this pop up. It's an interview that Justin Nukum '15 did with Bar C.O.D.E. Collective. From the YouTube page: Justin Nucum, aka JNukes, is the founder of Hardkour Performance. Hardkour Performance specializing in Obstacle Course Race (OCR) training. The HKTraining Program incorporates many aspects of training and cross-training of different types of activities [...]
Video: How to Convert Web Traffic into Customers Now with SEO and Inbound Marketing
https://youtu.be/LmlYe99T1yU Don't let your online efforts go to waste. Learn actionable steps you can take to convert traffic into customers at this seminar! About this Event SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is important for getting traffic to your website, but it is only one part of the Inbound Marketing process. Learn how to attract, convert, close [...]
CSUF Entrepreneur Craig Martyn: Mentor and Business Owner
I've had the unique privilege of having worked with Craig over the years and during the spring semester his company, My Metal Business Card, was a client in my class. Despite the fact that the semester was thrown into turmoil due to the pandemic Craig kept his cool and kept on working with the students, [...]
Learn How To Start Your Business This Fall – BUAD 410 Course for non-Entrepreneurship Majors
So many students have great business ideas but they don't pursue their dreams because they don't know where to start. That's where BUAD 410 comes in. In this class, students are challenged to develop a business plan based off of a concept of their own or from one of the other students in the class. [...]