CSUF Conrey Center for Entrepreneurship

Category: Business Concepts

  • Entrepreneur Mentor Office Hours @ CSUF Startup Incubator

    Dave Kinnear has been a mentor in our program for a long time now; he loves talking about entrepreneurship and business. And he has realized a great deal of success as well! Click here to reserve some time to talk business with Dave on Wednesday, July 28 and you won’t regret it! Working on a…

  • Startup Business Development Office Hours @ CSUF Startup Incubator

    This Friday we welcome Jim Cooper in for office hours at the CSUF Startup Incubator. Click here to reserve some time with him on Friday, July 22 to talk about your business, your ideas, or to just talk about whatever. Jim is a cool guy and great things seem to happen when people connect with…

  • CSUF Entrepreneur Office Hours are Open!

    Another week has flown by and we have been hard at work on the strategic plan for the CSUF Startup Incubator. As some of you may know, we will be adding a second location for the CSUF Startup Incubator at the CSUF Irvine campus. This is an exciting time for all of us and we…

  • Build the Perfect Sales Funnel! Event Later Today

    As we mentioned the other day, Joe Hines will be in later this evening (6pm to be exact) to talk about how to build the perfect sales funnel for your business. Honestly, if you’re not a great sales person already then you really should attend this event. Tickets are still available here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/build-the-perfect-sales-funnel-csuf-startup-incubator-tickets-26108986682 If you…

  • Simon Sinek's Golden Circle

    “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” Simon Sinek Entrepreneurs are the leaders of the global economy, driving innovations that improve the lives of billions of people. We started the CSUF Startup Incubator to help entrepreneurs develop the skills necessary to become one of those leaders. Last week, we were…

  • No-Tipping Restaurant Model

    A while back, CSUF professor Dr. Atul Teckchandani wrote a piece titled The not-so-surprising failure of no-tipping restaurants and it brought up many points that I thought were pretty interesting. The main thesis of Dr. Teckchandani’s piece was that while there is some data suggesting that restaurants that switch to a no-tipping model experience increases…

  • CSUF Startup Incubator Investment Panels – Q3 2015

    Every quarter, we provide our Residents (startups launching in the CSUF Startup Incubator) the opportunity to present to a panel of judges made up of our mentors, staff, other Residents, and guests from various industries including investors. We call these panels our CSUF Startup Incubator Investment Panels and the raison d’être for these panels is…

  • CSUF Campus Authors Recognized

    And one of those authors was none other than Director John Bradley Jackson. Last year, Director Jackson published Socially Close: Social Media Marketing for Small Business, which is about how businesses should be using social media in their marketing campaigns. Here’s a description of the book from Director Jackson’s website: Frustrated with social media at…

  • CSUF Entrepreneurship Team Receives Scholarship from Union Bank

    One of the many unique aspects of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Bachelor’s Degree and Minor is that each student that earns either of those degrees will be part of a team that develops a business plan and some actually progress far enough to launch their business ideas. It’s an amazing process to witness and the amount…

  • Why Should a Startup Consider a Business Incubator?

    Business incubation is not new. While most people recognize the dotcom era as the birth of business incubation, startups have received support from service organizations, large corporations, universities, and government agencies for decades. All have had a similar mission of helping the fledgling startup survive and become company with a viable business model, more or…