Category: Education

  • Phillip Stinis will be a Keynote Speaker at Phi Kappa Phi Event

    If you’re a current CSUF student there’s a decent chance that Phillip Stinis has come to your classroom to talk about the CSUF Startup Incubator. In a couple of weeks, he, along with Karla Amador of Thrive Financial (and a sponsor of a CSUF Entrepreneurship scholarship), will be the keynote speakers at an important national…

  • Entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talks to CSUF Entrepreneurship Students

    Recently, we were lucky enough to have serial entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talk to one of Director Jackson’s classes. Mr. Kovacs talked on many different facets of what he sees as crucial components of his success as an entrepreneur and what follows are the top 10 notes taken from Mr. Kovacs’ talk by CSUF Entrepreneur student…

  • Cal State Fullerton Mentoring Program

    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…

  • College Web Media Fest – Mentors, Music, Art, and Film

  • CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor: Alan Mannason

    Alan Mannason has been a stalwart mentor for the CSUF Entrepreneurship program for more than a decade but he is retiring as of this semester. In honor of Mr. Mannason we are republishing this post about him. We hope you enjoy this. Thank you Alan for all of your hard work and superb mentoring in…

  • How to start a Business course for non-Business Majors at Cal State Fullerton

    We love teaching entrepreneurship students the finer points of how to start a business, lean startups, MVPs, and the like so it is great that we also have a class to teach non-business majors the finer points of entrepreneurship now. Titled Business Administration 410: Starting and Managing a Small Business/Private Practice, this class is designed…

  • Guide to QuickBooks [EVENT]

    Cal State Fullerton’s Mihaylo College of Business & Economics and the SBDC are partnering to offer a Hands-On Beginners Guide to QuickBooks session. Learn how to be  more efficient and simplify your bookkeeping using QuickBooks Accounting Software. This seminar will demonstrate functions useful for daily operations in your small business. Items covered: Introduction to Financial…

  • Pivots with Jim Cooper @ CSUF Startup Incubator

    Earlier this month, the CSUF Startup Incubator was proud to welcome Jim Cooper to the CSUF Startup Incubator to talk about Pivots. What is a pivot? When should you make a pivot? How do you pivot? So on and so forth. Jim gave a very informative talk and here are some of the notes that…

  • Brand New Course to assist Transfer Students to CSUF

    Chances are that you or someone you know has transferred to CSUF. It was a challenging transition, wasn’t it? Or course it was! Transfer students always take some time to find their bearings at a new school but what if I told you that it doesn’t have to be that way? Starting this fall, Cal…

  • The Growth Mindset [VIDEO]

    A couple of months ago I was chatting with the founder of the Center for Entrepreneurship, Dr. Michael Ames. As happens when you talk with a bright individual like him the conversation quickly shifted into one about ideas, which is fine by me. By the end of our talk, Dr. Ames recommended a couple of…