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CSUF Fast Pitch Business Competition Highlights – Spring 2014
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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Pop-up Stores: The Perfect MVP
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…
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Why I Major in Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton
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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CSUF Business Plan Competition Winner on Radio
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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CSUF Student-Entrepreneur Project – Nissan GT-R
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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CSUF Fast Pitch Business Competition This Saturday
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!
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How to Pitch a Business
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,…
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Rance's Chicago Pizza
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: (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 rather…
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CSUF Student-Entrepreneur founded company to Perform
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.