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CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor: Jerry Conrey
Jerry Conrey has been an integral part of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Program since 2002 when he first became a mentor. Jerry still serves as a mentor to our student-entrepreneurs and he also has funded the Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship for many years, participated as a panelist at a seminar on Patent…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor: Alan Mannason
Bringing more than 50 years of business experience with him, Alan Mannason (who recently turned 90 years old!) has been involved as a mentor to our students for more than a decade. Needless to say, Alan is a mainstay of the program and he has been a part of it for longer than most of…
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CSUF SUM Startup Weekend – July 2014
Our new Entrepreneurship fraternity, Sigma Upsilon Mu (SUM), is going to be hosting a Startup Weekend in July. If you are not familiar with SUM and what they do the best way to describe it is that they are dedicated to demystifying the startup process for first time-entrepreneurs. The founder, Robert Gates, has meticulously developed…
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Free eBook – Your Entrepreneurial Journey
Some of you may have noticed that Dr. Michael Ames and Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson recently collaborated on a book called Your Entrepreneurial Journey. Having edited it myself, I can tell you that there is a lot of great content in this book. Dealing mainly with the intersection of principles and business,…
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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…