CSUF Conrey Center for Entrepreneurship

Category: Entrepreneurship

  • Orange County Business Statistics

    Over the weekend, Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson headlined an all day workshop for a group of visiting Chinese businesspeople. It was an educational experience for all those in attendance as they learned about how entrepreneurial Orange County is through Director Jackson’s workshop as well as through a visit to the FastStart.studio business…

  • Mihaylo Magazine Fall 2013 – FastStart.studio and Bolzmann

    As many of you know, this semester we are running a pilot Student-led Business Consulting program in our Management 461 class (Entrepreneurial Management) in conjunction with FastStart.studio, a business incubator. Six of FastStart.studio’s resident companies are our clients this semester and the early results are great. They are doing so good, in fact, that this…

  • Top Online Resources for Entrepreneurs

    This list is in no way meant to be an exhaustive one but a place to discover new insights into entrepreneurship and business in general. By all means, if you have another blog or website that you frequently go to for inspiration and guidance then add it into the comments. Also, we will be updating…

  • SBDC Orange County – Small Business Needs Survey

    One of our strategic partners, the SBDC of Orange County, would greatly appreciate it if all of the business owners we know would take five minutes and answer some survey questions. By answering these questions you will enable them to better serve the small business community in Orange County. Thanks!!!!

  • Business Idea Workshop

    After working at the Center for Entrepreneurship for a while I realized that a lot of people just didn’t know where to start in the whole new venture process. And, unfortunately, without any knowledge about what all the necessary steps in the process of launching a business were, many people with good ideas decided that…

  • The not-so-surprising failure of no-tipping restaurants

    Bruce Buschel, who ran a well-respected restaurant in the Hamptons and documented his experience in an excellent collection of posts, says that the hardest part of running a restaurant is “getting the food from the chef to the guest in a timely and polite fashion by a timely and polite staff.” This comment struck me…

  • Cal State Fullerton Alumna making noise in Chicago

    By William LeValley Cal State Fullerton alumna, Daniela Bolzmann, has had some major changes in her life over the past year. Bolzmann, an Entrepreneurship Graduate from CSUF in 2010, picked up her life here in Southern California and went east to the windy city of Chicago. While maintaining her job in California by working from…

  • Social Media Marketing in the United States

    On Tuesday, August 20, Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson had the pleasure to present in front of the Chinese delegation of the Zhejiang Commerce Bureau. Mr. Jackson gave a lecture focused on the role that social media plays in business in the United States. Mr. Jackson spoke on such topics as: How to…

  • Why I Became an Entrepreneurship Major – Megan Baptista

    My name is Megan Baptista, currently a senior at California State University, Fullerton studying Business Entrepreneurship. When I first came to CSUF, I knew that I wanted to have a career in business, but I couldn’t find a concentration that seemed fitting for the type of businesswoman that I sought to be. I had plans…

  • You get what you pay for

    We all know McDonald’s pays its employees minimum wage. But did you know that Apple Store employees make about $25k a year?  And that full-time employees at Costco make $40k a year? While both stores are seen as being exceptionally successful, they have very different operating philosophies when it comes to how they treat their…