Concept to Launch to Growth
The CSUF Fast Pitch Business Competition was a huge success earlier this year in February. Thanks to our sponsors – Wells Fargo, the Black Family Trust and Guchereau Company – we sponsored an event that brought together university and high school students from all over the Orange and Los Angeles County areas. (For more info, …
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An important milestone when attempting to start a new business is to create something that can be sold (or at least offered) to customers. The goal is to get something in the hands of your customers quickly and then continue to refine the product or service based on their feedback. In lean startup lingo, this …
The following was written by Robert Gates who is majoring in Entrepreneurship at CSUF. My name is Robert Gates and I’m currently a senior at California State University, Fullerton studying Entrepreneurship. When I first came to CSUF, I knew that I wanted to own a business but, at the time, I was unaware that the …
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John Chi, the founder of Synova Life Sciences, was recently interviewed on the Unfinished Business radio show with Renee White Fraser, Ph.D. and Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire. John, fresh off of strong showings at Survivor8 and the CSUF Fast Pitch Competition, talked with the hosts about his business and the lessons that he has learned along the …
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Every semester in the Marketing 450 Visual Marketing course students are tasked with creating a short film about something that they love. One of the students in the class this semester is Evan Ewing and he has decided to do his project and the Nissan GT-R. But he needs some help to pull this off. …
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Have you registered for the CSUF Fast Pitch business competition yet? NO?!?!?!?!?!!?!? You could win $1,000 for less than five minutes worth of work though! Oh well, I guess you don’t need the money. Well, if you change your mind, register at http://csuffastpitch.com/ and get ready because the competition is this Saturday!
On Saturday, February 8 we are hosting a major Fast Pitch Competition. This competition will have one track that includes university students from CSUF and other universities and another track for high school students. If you fit into either of those categories we strongly recommend you enter this competition because it will be good practice, …
Rance’s Chicago Pizza, one of our amazing clients in our Student-led Business Consulting Program, was recently featured on the show California’s Best. Here’s the segment: http://youtu.be/_8uqoI7aIoQ (Problems viewing? Go here) If you are interested in becoming a client in our program please visit our website and fill out a Request for Consulting document. If you’d …
David Soria ’10 and Billy Becerra ’10 founded Rotus, a music company, through our New Venture Program. They will be performing in early January and all of you are welcomed.
John Bradley Jackson, Director of the CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship, reviewed the findings of a recent study about Entrepreneurship in Orange County. The presentation happened at the November 20, 2013 meeting of SCORE’s Orange County Chapter. The local SCORE chapter is the nation’s largest and most productive chapter of the SBA funded organization which is …