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BUY a Small Business, Don’t Start One (Social Entrepreneurship Theme) | CSUF Startup Event June 28
Launching a startup from the ground up comes with significant uncertainty and risk of failure. Instead, prospective business people can do what scholars call Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition. A person acquires a profitable running business and continues the performance trajectory, benefiting from positive cash flow from day one. Some 90% of new ventures fail within the…
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Ignite your Impact: Mastering Social Entrepreneurship for Funding Success | CSUF Startup Event Wednesday June 14
Unleash the Power of Storytelling: Mastering Investor Pitches for Unstoppable Impact Join us for an exclusive event featuring Shaun Sanders, Managing Partner of VentureCraft, as he reveals the secrets to captivating investors and propelling startups towards unprecedented success. Prepare to be inspired and equipped with the knowledge and tools to make a meaningful impact. Discover…
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Crowdfunding: How I Raised Over $100,000 on Kickstarter | CSUF Startup Event April 24 on Zoom
Are you an entrepreneur looking to raise funds for your startup or innovative project? Join us for a comprehensive presentation that will provide you with the knowledge, tools, and strategies you need to successfully leverage crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe. In this presentation, you’ll learn: By the end of this presentation, you’ll have…
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Raising Capital: What Every Startup Needs to Know | CSUF Startup Event March 13 on Zoom
CSUF Startup Incubator and Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson (“JJ”) will give a talk on how to pitch to investors. In reality, as an entrepreneur you are continuously pitching, or explaining, your idea to everyone you meet who is even tangentially involved in your business. You need to be able to pitch your…
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What You Need to Know Before Hiring Your First Employee & Maximizing Growth | CSUF Startup Event February 27 on Zoom
About the Event: PEOPLE ARE THE HIGHEST COST & GREATEST ASSET TO YOUR COMPANY. Learn from People Operations Executive, Lance Robbins, how early stage culture is essential to scaling up your startups. You will learn how to levergage your employee’s experience to maximize profits. You will also learn what you need to know before hiring…
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Patent Filing Considerations & Preparing Your Own Provisional Patent | CSUF Startup Event Tonight on Zoom
About the Event: Intellectual property is becoming increasingly important when it comes to business valuation as well as success – especially for tech companies. A well-developed patent portfolio (along with an intellectual property portfolio, generally) conveys a high degree of technical and commercial sophistication to potential investors, customers, competitors, and licensees. It also proves that…
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CSUF Startup Event This Wednesday: The Business of Startups 101
Update: This event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, October 9 at noon. The registration link has been updated. Event is this Wednesday starting at 6pm at the CSUF Startup Incubator location in Irvine. Click the registration link above for more details. This seminar will give first time entrepreneurs a good foundation about what they need…
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José Calero – CSUF Startup Event Recap
José Calero had a very successful sales career and the day after he retired he decided that he was going to start his own business. Almost two decades later he has a thriving business, called LapWorks, and he was gracious enough to sit down with Cal State Fullerton students at our most recent CSUF Startup…
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CSUF Startup Event Tomorrow: Product Market Fit – The Holy Grail of Success!
Join us for dinner and a talk tomorrow night at 6pm at the CSUF Irvine campus with Barry Lieberman. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/product-market-fit-the-holy-grail-of-success-csuf-startup-tickets-51849703860 “First to market seldom matters. Rather first to product/market fit is the long-term winner” “Once a company has achieved product market fit, it is extremely difficult to dislodge it, even with a better…
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Successful Business Strategies from a Lawyer Turned Entrepreneur – CSUF Startup Event
Next Wednesday the CSUF Startup Incubator is proud to welcome Robert Freeman, the titular lawyer turned entrepreneur, in to discuss the strategies he has successfully used over his career as a lawyer and entrepreneur with two successful businesses under his belt. As a lawyer, Robert is able to look onto entrepreneurship from a different perspective…