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Bridging Social Entrepreneurship and Nature at Cal State Fullerton
In the dynamic environment of California State University, Fullerton’s Entrepreneurship program, practical learning is a core principle. One recent example of this approach is the collaboration between Professor Atul Teckchandani’s class and the CSUF Arboretum and Botanical Garden. This partnership aimed to address some of the operational challenges faced by the Arboretum, a valued green…
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Join Us Now For the Titan Fast Pitch Boot Camp – Learn How To Give A Winning 90 Second Pitch
Learn what it takes to give a winning business pitch for the Titan Fast Pitch competition!!! About this Event The Titan Fast Pitch is a competition for students who want to blaze their own trail! Are you ready to compete? Not so fast. For this competition, students are challenged to deliver a recorded 90 second…
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CSUF Startup 10-8 Systems Saving Hundreds of Lives in wake of Hurricane Dorian
One of the many great things about working with Cal State Fullerton students is that they are creative and they use that creativity to come up with solutions that most others would never think of. A prime example of this is CSUF student Bryan Ruef‘s startup 10-8 Systems. Bryan, who is a computer science major…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Teams Up With Engineering at Cal State Fullerton To Help Students Become Entrepreneurs
One of our goals at the Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton is to help make the Cal State Fullerton community more innovative and entrepreneurial. There are students, faculty, and staff throughout Cal State Fullerton that have amazing ideas that can have a real impact on the world but they don’t actively pursue those…
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CSUF Students Help Companies Develop Better Leadership Practices
In the Leadership and Human Resources Student Consulting Program, our goal is to understand the client’s business and then use that understanding along with an objective lens to help address the leadership and HR challenges the client is facing. It is our goal to hear from the client that the student consulting team’s recommendations were…
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Entrepreneurship needs Hackers, Hipsters and Hustlers
Every startup needs three kinds of people: hipsters, hackers and hustlers. While I can’t take credit for this insight (a former student and current entrepreneur told it to me), I completely agree. Hackers are the folks who can code, or more generally, the folks who can create a product (the engineers and scientists). Hipsters are…
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Entrepreneurship Lessons from Pirate Joe's
Trader Joe’s has a large and loyal following. (I’m one of them.) But they only have stores in the United States. Michael Hallatt lived in Vancouver, Canada, and got tired of having to cross the border to get his favorite grocery products. Thinking like an entrepreneur, he decided to start buying products from Trader Joe’s…
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Innovation Fail
The following was written by Dr. Atul Teckchandani, one of the great professors teaching Entrepreneurship at CSUF. Entrepreneurs innovate. Every industry can benefit from innovation. But this trend of putting electronics in everything concerns me – just adding technology to an existing product does not make it innovative. The best innovations are things that meaningfully…