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CSUF Entrepreneurship Success Story: Eric Don ‘13
Whenever we can, we like to highlight the successes of our alumni. Eric Don ’13 is one of those alumni who has gone on to accomplish some pretty great things and, as evidenced by the Facebook post below, has not only accomplished a lot but has had some amazing experiences as well. I had the…
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Titan Fast Pitch 101: How To Give A Winning Pitch
The Titan Fast Pitch is a great way for students to take those first steps into becoming an entrepreneur (and potentially win some money for school or your startup). By crafting a winning sixty second pitch, students will have to come up with compelling answers to questions that all successful entrepreneurs have to grapple with,…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Alumnus to Perform at House of Blues this Friday
This Friday, from 7pm to 8pm, our very own Omoghéné will be performing at the House of Blues in Anaheim. The details and a link to buy tickets are below: The Bar Society presents “Local Vocals” featuring Omoghéné. Join upcoming Neo-Soul/RnB artist, Omoghéné, for a live performance at the House of Blues Anaheim Foundation Room…
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Titan Women Collective Scholarships Awarded
Last Friday, Titan Women Collective and Dr. Deb Ferber awarded six scholarships to Cal State Fullerton students who all share a passion for entrepreneurship and leadership. As part of Titan Women Collective, these fearless students are part of the first class of innovators who have received scholarships to help them advance their educations and they…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Teams Up With Engineering at Cal State Fullerton To Help Students Become Entrepreneurs
One of our goals at the Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton is to help make the Cal State Fullerton community more innovative and entrepreneurial. There are students, faculty, and staff throughout Cal State Fullerton that have amazing ideas that can have a real impact on the world but they don’t actively pursue those…
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You Don’t Pick Talent, Talent Picks You
Earlier today, John Bradley Jackson (affectionately known as JJ to his students and friends), the Director for the Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton, gave a talk at the SoCal Executive Summit about how talent picks you in today’s job market. The event, hosted by CSUF Startup Incubator alum Nick Panhwar and his startup…
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What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Dell – Customer Discovery
CNBC recently published a business biography of Dell. It’s about 12.5 minutes long, so it doesn’t go into minute detail about the ups and downs of Dell but it does give an excellent thumbnail sketch of the company. Further down the post I go into how startups and existing businesses can utilize customer discovery processes…
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CSUF Entrepreneur Alumnus Participated in Y Combinator Demo Day Earlier this Year
TechCrunch has the story. John Chi, a CSUF Entrepreneur alumnus who has competed in a couple of our competitions in the past, was accepted into the preeminent incubator in the country, Y Combinator, last year. Earlier this year, John’s Synova Life Sciences presented at their demo day. Here’s a brief synopsis of Synova from TechCrunch:…
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CSUF Entrepreneur Alumnus Dalip Jaggi Shares Lessons Learned From Running And Selling A Business
Dalip Jaggi ’14 has had quite the entrepreneurial journey. In January, 2014 he launched Devise Interactive to help brands reimagine their digital presence and he graduated from Cal State Fullerton that same year. Fast forward not even five years to December 2018 and Dalip had grown Devise Interactive to the point that it was acquired…
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Invest in what you know
As an investor myself, I can attest to how difficult it can be to stick to that advice in the title. As an investor, you get to see all kinds of ideas and meet with many different entrepreneurs. Many of them have very compelling stories, and we know that startup stories are important but there’s…