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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…
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Startup Storytelling
Recently at the CSUF Starutp Incubator we welcomed Jim Vasconcello to give a talk about startup storytelling. Jim, a former military intelligence specialist, shared his knowledge on the importance of putting together a quality story for any startup and went into detail about how to actually develop that winning story. What follows are some bullet…
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How To Launch Your Startup Idea – CSUF Startup Incubator Seminar
The CSUF Startup Incubator welcomed in Alexis Bedoret in to host a seminar that focused on the number one job of an entrepreneur. Alexis spent the last 10 years building startups with expertise in Software, Hardware and the Internet of Things. With his co-founders, they created a Startup Studio to invest in startups. They learned…
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Congratulations to CSUF Entrepreneurship Donor and Mentor Janet Steiner – Named 2019 Executive of the Year
Congratulations to CSUF Entrepreneurship mentor, judge, a founding board member of CSUF Entrepreneurship’s Titan Women Collective, and donor Janet Steiner who was recently named the 2019 Executive of the Year! The award was given by the Printing Industries Association, Inc. of Southern California and is quite the accomplishment as that organizations has more than 800…