CSUF Entrepreneurship

Category: Entrepreneurship

  • CSUF MBA Students Available for Consulting

    Strategy is all about making the right choices. CSUF MBA teams are available now to help you create a comprehensive strategic review of your company with 3-5 year projections and a plan of action. Analysis of future company directions will be based on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Options could include strategic alliances, acquisitions, or…

  • The CrashRespond Challenge – Build an App that Sells while in School and Working Full-Time (Part 1)

    This post was republished with permission from the BDEC, Irvine. This series of posts will walk you through the process of planning, market testing and developing an app. The app we’ll talk about is called CrashRespond. It will automatically detect car accidents and upon detection, send a text and email alert to up to 3…

  • Does your Company need an Operations Tuneup?

    Over the years CSUF has consulted for dozens of companies in the area of Operations. Some of these companies were operating pretty smoothly while others needed an outsider’s perspective. But the common theme throughout all of these cases is that every company can benefit from an Operations tune up. Let’s face it; you may not…

  • Is College Necessary for Entrepreneurs?

    What follows is a post from Dr. Atul Teckchandani, one of the great professors teaching Entrepreneurship at CSUF. While most of the people who come to my office are college students, I recently had an individual come who had just graduated high school. He came to see me because he wanted to be an entrepreneur…

  • TapTapOrder is Hiring

    Phillip Stinis is a CSUF graduate and has served as a Business Leader Coach for students in our Entrepreneurship Program. He has also developed an app for iPads and iPhones that helps streamline the ordering process in restaurants. This product has already gone through trials and they are preparing to aggressively sell this technology to…

  • Formula SAE Results

    Last week we had a post about the unprecedented cooperation between Mihaylo College and the College of Engineering and Computer Sciences. The partnership was meant to bolster our entry into Formula SAE, a competition to see which university could build the best scaled down race car. Well, it worked brilliantly; up to a point. In…

  • Entrepreneuria

    In the past we have talked about Fast.Start.studio, a business incubator that was founded by Michael Sawitz, a great friend of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Now, Saimah Chaudhry, one of the more successful entrepreneurs to come out of our program in recent history, has told us about a unique new entrant into the business incubator…

  • Conrey Scholarship Presentation

    In the last post I promised that I’d publish some pictures from the Center for Entrepreneurship 10th Anniversary Celebration. So, without any further ado here are some pictures of the presentation of the Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship to Brian Fainzimer. [images: Brian Feinzimer]

  • Center for Entrepreneurship's 10th Anniversary Celebration Recap

    Founded during the Fall semester of the 2001-02 school year by Dr. Michael Ames, the Center for Entrepreneurship is a self-sustaining entity funded through program fees, individual donations and corporate sponsorships. In the Entrepreneurship Program we have 180 full time and part time students studying Entrepreneurship as a major and 44 students minoring in Entrepreneurship.…

  • Current and Future Startup Trends

    Starting a new business is risky. So risky, in fact, that most fail within the first few years of conception. While startup failure rates may be high, startups nevertheless provide hope and jobs for many. So what is the state of U.S. startups? According to an article in the Orange County Register (via the Census…