CSUF Conrey Center for Entrepreneurship

Category: Goals

  • The Importance of Financial Literacy

    Everyone knows that the literacy rate is not where it should be but people do not usually stop to consider the problems associated with a lack of financial literacy. Think about it, if you do not understand the differences between a savings account and a CD then you will probably be met with some financial…

  • 5 Tips for Getting Funded on Kickstarter

    Kickstarter is one of those ideas that grabs you by the lapels shoulders and makes you pay attention. That’s especially so now that Kickstarter boasts three projects that have raised over one million dollars (that’s $1,000,000+ for numerophiles). Of those three projects one is a video game, one is a design project and another a…

  • Key Performance Indicators

    While I was looking through YouTube the other day I happened across this quality, but brief, clip about key performance indicators. It’s a video of a consultant giving a lecture at Cal State Fullerton about goal setting and what your goals really should be. Enjoy entrepreneurs!

  • Attention All College Students: Get on LinkedIn Now

    While Facebook is the place where your college friends hang out, LinkedIn is the social network for finding a job. With your graduation looming, the time to get started on LinkedIn is while you are still in school. LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network with over 150 million members and is growing very rapidly.…

  • What Kind of Life Do You Want to Lead?

    One of the best entrepreneurship classes I ever took ended with the professor asking each of us to write our obituary. The assignment instructions are below: Write your own obituary. Assume you die of natural causes on your 70th birthday and a close friend is asked to summarize your life in 300 words or less.…

  • Making a Difference

    A recent episode of the wonderful NPR program “This American Life” featured a segment about investing in new ideas (Episode # 412: Million Dollar Idea). In this segment, the focus was on putting together an elevator pitch that would attract the attention of venture capitalists. One venture capitalist also shared his insights as to what…

  • Follow Your Dreams

    Video Blog From Bob Kriesberg I appreciate the opportunity to address the Student Entrepreneurs at Cal State Fullerton, I have done some mentoring as part of the school and I have really enjoyed my involvement with them and I have really enjoyed my involvement with the company that I founded twenty one years ago. I…