Category: Entrepreneurship

  • CSUF Business Plan Competition Finalists Announced!

    The CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals are almost here! Get your tickets now to support the great Cal State Fullerton student-entrepreneurs who will be presenting their innovative concepts for a chance at winning part of the $5,000 scholarship pool. In this week’s CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider Director John Bradley Jackson reveals the five Finalists! Drum roll…

  • CSUF Student's Passion Leads to Good Works in DC Internship

    Interning is a rite of passage for many college students and some internships have a profound impact on students by shaping the way they view the world and their place in it. One Cal State Fullerton student, Rachel Herzog, is currently doing one of those internships and is having an experience of a lifetime in…

  • How to Present to an Investment Panel, the Basics – Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship

    The slides you present to investors are important but there are some basic things that are more important. In this talk by CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson (JJ to his students) you will learn what the basics of a good presentation are. These tips are predicated on years of experience he has…

  • CSUF Startup Incubator Resident Launches Insurance Comparison Shopping Platform

    When it comes to anything insurance related, just the thought of it can stress almost anyone out. Lets face it, while the simple signing on the dotted line is easy, “shopping” for the right insurance can often be very difficult and sometimes overwhelming. But don’t sweat it – entrepreneur Harvey Kong has come up with…

  • Building a Visual Identity for your Brand – Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship

    One of the most important things every entrepreneur has to do is build a brand because that determines your startup’s identity. A big part of your brand is the visuals that you use. Visuals need to be consistent and be evocative of the kind of image that you are trying to cultivate. Give careful care…

  • CSUF Consulting Teams Place Second, Third in National Competition

    In this week’s CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider Director John Bradley Jackson talks about the two CSUF Consulting teams that did very well in a national competition. Two of our CSUF Consulting teams finished second and third in their respective categories at the Small Business Institute’s national consulting report competition. This is a great honor for us…

  • Pick Your Social Media Platforms Wisely – Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship

    Marketing today is much more involved than it has ever been. There are so many different social media platforms that are around that entrepreneurs can quickly become overwhelmed if they try to have an active presence on too many of them. That is why smart entrepreneurs take stock of how much time they can devote…

  • CSUF Consulting Teams Finish Second, Third in National Competition

    Every year, the CSUF Consulting program works with over 100 clients to help them improve their businesses in a number of key ways, including: Marketing, Operations, Finance, Accounting, and General Strategy. From these projects we enter one undergraduate and one MBA project into a national consulting competition for universities. Out of the hundreds of universities…

  • Innovation At Cal State Fullerton – It Starts With You

    In this week’s edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider we focus on how innovation starts with you. Everyone has the ability to improve things and the seed of all innovation is an idea. Successful innovators are the ones who work every day to make those ideas into something real. Over the past few weeks the…

  • CSUF Student Places in Top 5 of National Entrepreneurship Competition

    CSUF Entrepreneurship student, CSUF Startup Incubator Resident, and founder of Piano with Jonny, Jonny May recently finished very well in a national competition for student-entrepreneurs hosted by the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO). Out of the hundreds of students who entered nationally, Jonny finished in the Top 5! Here are some of Jonny’s thoughts on competing: GSEA…