CSUF Conrey Center for Entrepreneurship

Category: Business Concepts

  • Titan Fast Pitch Competition

    Clear your calendar – It’s going down! The Titan Fast Pitch Competition kicks off Saturday November 8th, 2014 and you’re invited! Watch the hottest student-entrepreneurs compete for a spot on the winner’s podium, and their share of scholarships. All finalists are chosen in real time, by the crowd, via mobile phone. Students that survive, endure…

  • Pop-up Stores: The Perfect MVP

    An important milestone when attempting to start a new business is to create something that can be sold (or at least offered) to customers. The goal is to get something in the hands of your customers quickly and then continue to refine the product or service based on their feedback. In lean startup lingo, this…

  • How to Pitch a Business

    On Saturday, February 8 we are hosting a major Fast Pitch Competition. This competition will have one track that includes university students from CSUF and other universities and another track for high school students. If you fit into either of those categories we strongly recommend you enter this competition because it will be good practice,…

  • The not-so-surprising failure of no-tipping restaurants

    Bruce Buschel, who ran a well-respected restaurant in the Hamptons and documented his experience in an excellent collection of posts, says that the hardest part of running a restaurant is “getting the food from the chef to the guest in a timely and polite fashion by a timely and polite staff.” This comment struck me…

  • You get what you pay for

    We all know McDonald’s pays its employees minimum wage. But did you know that Apple Store employees make about $25k a year?  And that full-time employees at Costco make $40k a year? While both stores are seen as being exceptionally successful, they have very different operating philosophies when it comes to how they treat their…

  • Dads: An Untapped Market

    In the spirit of Father’s Day, I think it’s time that entrepreneurs looked more actively at the dad market. Mothers are increasingly more educated than fathers and are becoming the primary breadwinners in the household (Source). And that means more stay-at-home dads. So why then are so few companies reaching out to these dads? The…

  • Diana Ho Designs makes Strategic Changes

    About a year ago we first brought you the story of Diana Ho and her boutique clothing company: Diana Ho Designs. Instead of going into a written explanation of what it is she set out to do I’ll just post a couple of pictures. As you can tell from the above pictures Diana definitely has…

  • CSUF Business Plan Competition 2013 Finals

    After months of hard work by our student entrepreneurs we have a winner! But before we get ahead of ourselves here let us first talk about the Finals. It was a morning event and, unlike the first CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals, we had good weather, which was nice. The three finalists – Synova Life…

  • CSUF Business Plan Competition 2013 Finals

    You are all invited to the CSUF Business Plan Competition 2013 Finals Who: All Students are welcome – an Opportunity Drawing will be held for all students in attendance, prizes include: iPad Mini, Angels Tickets, concert tickets, lodging at a resort and more (student ID must be shown in order to enter Opportunity Drawing) Faculty,…

  • CSUF Business Plan Competition 2013

    *****NOTE: FOR RESOURCES YOU CAN USE PLEASE CLICK HERE ***** Last year CSUF Business Plan Competition 2012 was a major success with more than 150 students participating in the inaugural event. This year the stakes are even higher. There’s more: Prize Money Professional Services available to the winners Exposure Competition This year we are offering…