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Startups Raising Money While in Quarantine
Quarantine or not, many businesses are still operating and some of them, especially startups, are in the process of raising money. Even in the best of times raising money when you are an unproven, new business, is not an easy task. Not all of us are Disney who can go out and raise $6 billion…
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Something for Entrepreneurs to Watch: Niall Ferguson’s Networld
Niall Ferguson has done a lot of work on how networks form, grow, and dissolve. He has insights into what makes for powerful networks and how you can leverage that information to build your own networks, which is an extremely important thing for any entrepreneur to do. (Wouldn’t it be nice if you knew a…
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Startup Pivots in the Time of Coronavirus
What do you mean by “pivot”? Startups (and companies in general) “pivot” when they change parts or all of their business models as a response to new information. These changes can be in anticipation of changes in the future (proactive) or as a result of some kind of unexpected change (reactive, like what is going…
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Outcomes of NSF $1Million Grant Known as STEM-Inc
STEM-Inc is now complete and many of you have asked about the outcomes and impact of the three-year $1Million National Science Foundation Grant, which featured the CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship with Director John Bradley Jackson as Co-Private Investigator. Below is a summary of the project outcomes and a list of the published articles. Project Outcomes:…
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Paul Wasserman Gives Keynote at Orange County Celebrates Entrepreneurs
Our first ever Orange County Celebrates Entrepreneurs event, which was in collaboration with UC Irvine and Concordia University was a huge success! Over four hundred people attended this event that featured nine separate panels on different aspects of entrepreneurship along with a couple of amazing keynote speeches. One of those speeches was done by Cal…
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Orange County Celebrates Entrepreneurs – Stories of New Venture Creation event on Saturday, February 29
Fullerton, CA, January 10, 2020 Startups, business leaders, investors, bankers and advisers will gather to share stories about new venture creation in an inaugural event to be held at Cal State Fullerton on Saturday, February 29, 2020. This event is a collaboration between UCI Beall Applied Innovation, Cal State Fullerton Center for Entrepreneurship and Concordia…
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Titan Fast Pitch 2019 Recap
“The event was loud, exciting, and chaotic,” Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson described the Titan Fast Pitch. “Hundreds of participants flooded the football field-sized at the Titan Student Union hoping to make their mark. For the students who presented their pitches were all about doing and learning. With sixty seconds to tell your…
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IGNITE22 GLOBAL SHOWCASE AND SUMMIT 2019 — Los Angeles Waterfront
This year IGNITE22 will be on Wednesday November 13 in San Pedro. We will have exhibits, technology panels on salient issues in the ecosystem, a VC stage discussing venture growth, and the Grand Final of our IGNITE22 Challenges (Smartcities, FutureFood and Bluetech). There will be opportunities for startups and teams to pitch, to network with investors…
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Everything up to and including the Pitch Deck
Last week, Professor Travis Lindsay gave a talk at Tech Coast Venture Network (TCVN) about the investment process up to and including the pitch deck. Below is the pitch deck that Travis used to, well, describe pitch decks. If you are working on your pitch deck, elevator pitch, business plan, or are in the process…
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CSUF Startup Talk Ep 5 with Ryan Fratzke
In this CSUF Startup Talk with CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson, JJ talks with Ryan Fratzke of Fratzke Media in a discussion about marketing.