Category: Entrepreneurship

  • Find Your Entrepreneurial Fit

    Every week in the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider you can learn important things to help you start your business. This week is no different. I frequently have conversations with entrepreneurs, many of them are first time entrepreneurs, who are enthusiastic about an idea but don’t know where to start. Sometimes they just need a little bit…

  • Find Your Fit as an Entrepreneur

    Over your lifetime you have developed a set of skills that most people do not have and in this talk by entrepreneur and author Damon Brown he convincingly argues that the best road forward for entrepreneurs is to identify those skills and leverage them when launching a new business. In other words, figure out what…

  • Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship

    In this week’s CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider we unveil a new video series called Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship where we publish short excerpts from our talks that focus on issues important to entrepreneurs. We hope that you get a lot of value out of them! In last week’s edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider we included…

  • E-commerce website looking for students interested in a Startup, Academic Internship

    Aidtree is an e-commerce site that helps causes fundraise.  We compare ourselves slightly to Groupon (instead of purchasing a whole transaction you purchase a discount coupon) but up to 90% of the coupon purchases go to your cause or charity. The interns will focus on 3 aspects: 1) Website and user review and analysis:  The…

  • Entrepreneurs Need a Brain Trust

    Entrepreneurs need to have a close knit group of advisors, or brain trust, in order to get the most out of their startups and businesses. Entrepreneur and author Damon Brown goes into detail about how to cultivate your brain trust and how best to leverage their combined experiences to give your business its best chance…

  • One Way To Become A Better Entrepreneur

    Becoming better at anything takes a lot of work and, as you will find out in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider from Center for Entrepreneurship John Bradley Jackson, working with a CSUF Consulting team is one way to achieve that goal. It is said that curiosity killed the cat but I do not…

  • Entrepreneur Mentor Office Hours: Startup Expert Jim Cooper @ CSUF Startup Incubator

    This Friday from 10am to 4pm startup expert Jim Cooper will be hosting office hours at the CSUF Startup Incubator. For more details and to reserve some time with Jim please go here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/entrepreneur-mentor-startup-expert-jim-cooper-csuf-startup-incubator-tickets-31190267931?aff=blog Launching a business can be an extremely difficult thing to do, especially if you haven’t done something like it before. That’s…

  • How to Pitch to an Investment Panel @ CSUF Startup Incubator

    Learn the keys to making a successful investor pitch at this seminar hosted by Director John Bradley Jackson. John, known as JJ to his students, will help attendees understand how to make a convincing investment pitch. He will explain the basics of how to develop your investment deck to how to approach potential investors. Attendees…

  • A New Semester Begins at CSUF

    A new semester begins at Cal State Fullerton! Take a look at what is in store in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider. For most of Cal State Fullerton the spring semester begins today and there are many things to look forward to during the semester at CSUF Entrepreneurship. Over the next couple of…

  • Alumnus, Entrepreneur, Bootlegger

    What happens when your hobby outgrows its hobby status? If you are experimenting with making craft beer in your garage, you end up supplying the entire neighborhood. That is what happened to Aaron Barkenhagen ’07. His love of good beer and his loyalty to his Fullerton neighbors created a symbiotic relationship that still exists today.…