CSUF Entrepreneurship Consulting
Angeli Menta (second from left) mentored this team of awesome CSUF Entrepreneurship students who ended up winning a national competition for excellence in consulting.

Mentors are a pivotal component of the CSUF Entrepreneurship program. We have dozens of student teams every semester working on consulting projects for local businesses and on developing their own startups. It’s an amazing process that helps bring real life situations into the classroom for our students and the mentors serve as an invaluable bridge between the academic and the practical.

We are looking for a few more businesspeople to serve as mentors in our program to help our students develop the skill sets necessary to compete in the real world. You don’t need to have decades worth of experience or have started multiple paradigm changing companies. That would be cool but we’ve found that the ideal mentors are people who care about helping the students grow as people and as professionals.

For each of our classes we ask mentors to attend approximately ten times throughout the semester for about an hour each time. For mentors in classes with consulting projects, which is most of them and is noted below, there will probably be a couple onsite visits with the client as well. Overall, mentoring in our program requires a couple hours a week on average over the course of about thirteen weeks.

If you are interested in becoming a mentor in our program please send us a message at csufentrepreneurship@fullerton.edu. I can answer any of your questions and get you in touch with the professors. And if you have any recommendations on people who would make a good mentor please let them know about us.

Below you will find the list of classes for which we still need mentors. All of them have student teams doing consulting projects for local businesses except for the first one listed, Business Administration 410, where teams are developing  business plans for their concepts.

Business Administration 410 – Starting and Managing a Professional Practice/Small Business
Professor: Jeff Longshaw
Time: Wednesday 4:00pm to 6:45pm

Management 461 – Entrepreneurial Management (Consulting)
Professor: Tom Miller
Time: Wednesday 7:00pm to 9:45pm

Marketing 462 – Marketing for Entrepreneurs (Consulting)
Professor: Scott Sorrell
Time: Tuesday 7:00pm to 9:45pm

Accounting 463 – Financial Controls for Entrepreneurs (first section) (Consulting)
Professor: Tom Miller
Time: Monday 7:00pm to 9:45pm

Accounting 463 – Financial Controls for Entrepreneurs (second section) (Consulting)
Professor: Tom Miller
Time: Tuesday 7:00pm to 9:45pm

Management 464 – Entrepreneurial Leadership (first section) (Consulting)
Professor: Jack Mixner
Time: Monday 7:00pm to 9:45pm

Management 464 – Entrepreneurial Leadership (second section) (Consulting)
Professor: Atul Teckchandani
Time: Wednesday 1:00pm to 3:45pm