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Entrepreneurs Must Build Their Core
If you want to get into shape one of the main things you have to do is build your core, the muscles that support the rest of your body. Being a successful entrepreneur is no different but, instead of muscles, entrepreneurs have to develop key skills that will enable them to be successful. Entrepreneur and…
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Find Your Entrepreneurial Fit
Every week in the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider you can learn important things to help you start your business. This week is no different. I frequently have conversations with entrepreneurs, many of them are first time entrepreneurs, who are enthusiastic about an idea but don’t know where to start. Sometimes they just need a little bit…
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Find Your Fit as an Entrepreneur
Over your lifetime you have developed a set of skills that most people do not have and in this talk by entrepreneur and author Damon Brown he convincingly argues that the best road forward for entrepreneurs is to identify those skills and leverage them when launching a new business. In other words, figure out what…
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Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship
In this week’s CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider we unveil a new video series called Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship where we publish short excerpts from our talks that focus on issues important to entrepreneurs. We hope that you get a lot of value out of them! In last week’s edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider we included…
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One Way To Become A Better Entrepreneur
Becoming better at anything takes a lot of work and, as you will find out in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider from Center for Entrepreneurship John Bradley Jackson, working with a CSUF Consulting team is one way to achieve that goal. It is said that curiosity killed the cat but I do not…
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The 12 Slides you need for your Startup Pitch to Investors
These are the 12 slides you need when you are pitching your business to investors. In this talk, John Bradley Jackson, Director for the Cal State Fullerton Center for Entrepreneurship and CSUF Startup Incubator, goes through the twelve slides that entrepreneurs need to nail when giving a pitch to investors. Investor presentations are are high…
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Happy Holidays from CSUF Entrepreneurship
This is the last CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider of 2016 and we want to thank everyone who contributed to the CSUF Entrepreneurship community! Without all of you we could not have accomplished nearly as much as we did. 2016 is winding down and we sincerely hope that you are finding some time to spend with family…
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Ask an Entrepreneur!
As you will read in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider, we are launching Ask an Entrepreneur! We hope that this will become a great way to answer questions that many people in our community have and that these answers will help people become better entrepreneurs. One trait I frequently witness in the entrepreneurs…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Students Create Business Plan, Present to Investor Panel
“The panel is awesome – I love that as students, we have the chance to present real ideas to real business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, and bankers. Few other classes offer the practical feedback and hands-on work that I have experienced in Management 465A. It is one of the best Entrepreneurship classes, and I highly recommend…
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CSUF Course Recommendation for non-Business Majors Interested in Starting their own Business
Not every entrepreneur is a business major; far from it actually. But the reality is that without some basic entrepreneurial skills it is extremely difficult to successfully launch a business. What should a CSUF student who is not majoring in business but wants to start a company do? Those intrepid students should take BUAD 410…