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Sigma Upsilon Mu's 8 Hour Business Challenge at Cal State Fullerton
Sigma Upsilon Mu is the most active student group dedicated to entrepreneurship on the Cal State Fullerton campus and just a few days ago they held a great competition called the 8 Hour Business Challenge. This competition was open to university students from all across the area and required an amazing amount of work from…
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Entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talks to CSUF Entrepreneurship Students
Recently, we were lucky enough to have serial entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talk to one of Director Jackson’s classes. Mr. Kovacs talked on many different facets of what he sees as crucial components of his success as an entrepreneur and what follows are the top 10 notes taken from Mr. Kovacs’ talk by CSUF Entrepreneur student…
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Irvine Eyed for CSUF Startup Incubator Expansion
If you get the Orange County Business Journal [SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED] you might have seen an article about the planned expansion of the CSUF Startup Incubator into Irvine and we couldn’t be more thrilled about the prospect. Right now, we are thinking that the Irvine expansion will open its doors in September (of this year) but…
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Happy Anniversary CSUF Startup Incubator
I just realized that it was exactly one year ago that we accepted the first three Residents into the CSUF Startup Incubator. That was an exciting time but we were also worried; I guess that’s how you normally feel when you are doing something that you haven’t done before. I don’t want to go through…
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Hackpoly February 6-7
We can’t lie, Cal Poly Pomona is an awesome school and they have a great event for all you tinkerers, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and so on!!! Hackpoly will be held on February 6 and 7 this year and, according to their official website, Hackathons are where your crazy ideas become reality. Build anything—there are no restrictions…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor: Alan Mannason
Alan Mannason has been a stalwart mentor for the CSUF Entrepreneurship program for more than a decade but he is retiring as of this semester. In honor of Mr. Mannason we are republishing this post about him. We hope you enjoy this. Thank you Alan for all of your hard work and superb mentoring in…
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Psychological Impact of being an Entrepreneur @ CSUF Startup Incubator [EVENT]
Maggie So ’12 is a recent MBA graduate from Cal State Fullerton and an entrepreneur in her own right. As an entrepreneur she knows the psychological toll that it can take on yourself and those around you. Specifically, she will discuss the following topics: Becoming aware of the sources of burnout, especially those unique to…
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Titan Fast Pitch Competition
We recently hosted more than 500 middle school students, high school students, university students, Innovation Fair exhibitors, judges, family, and friends at the Titan Fast Pitch competition and it was an amazing event! It was a treat getting to hear all of the ideas from the different competitors and made all of the hard work…
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How to start a Business course for non-Business Majors at Cal State Fullerton
We love teaching entrepreneurship students the finer points of how to start a business, lean startups, MVPs, and the like so it is great that we also have a class to teach non-business majors the finer points of entrepreneurship now. Titled Business Administration 410: Starting and Managing a Small Business/Private Practice, this class is designed…
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How to Pitch your Business Idea in a Minute
The Titan Fast Pitch competition is on November 7 (Register now for a chance to win a scholarship) and I’m getting some questions on how to make an excellent pitch. To be sure, it’s a tough question and there is some creative license that goes into making a convincing pitch so no answer I give…