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How Entrepreneurs Can Defeat The Dreaded Trough Of Sorrow
Phillip Stinis, manager of the CSUF Startup Incubator, hosted a seminar last night with a couple of dozen attendees eager to learn how to go from concept to launch and how to beat that trough of sorrow. What is the “Trough of Sorrow”? The Trough of Sorrow is a concept that comes from Y Combinator…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Alumni Teach Current Students About Design Thinking
Yumi Liang ‘18 and Vanessa Ganaden ’18 took some time out from their busy lives to teach current CSUF Entrepreneurship students about design thinking and how it relates to entrepreneurship. Design thinking is something that both of them learned about as University Innovation Fellows and as founders/leaders of Student Innovation Collective and they are using…
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Business as a Machine
Marc Pakbaz is an interesting guy and I like him. I’m going to miss a big portion of his history here but, in short, he is from Iran, lived in France (where he built and sold a business), and now lives in America (where he built and sold a business). He’s a teacher, consultant, serial…
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Types of Intellectual Property that Entrepreneurs Should Know
Justin Sanders, the VP for High Tech and Mechanical Devices at Entralta, gave a very insightful presentation on intellectual property last night for the Center for Entrepreneurship and CSUF Startup Incubator at the CSUF Irvine campus. He covered a lot in his hour long seminar so I’m simply going to give you an overview of…
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Getting New Things Done – A New Book on Innovation with Stanford University Press by CSUF Professor David Obstfeld
Cal State Fullerton Professor David Obstfeld has just published a new book called “Getting New Things Done” with Stanford University Press. New things get done all the time. But how do new things actually get done? Cal State Fullerton Entrepreneurship Professor David Obstfeld tackles this question head on. Drawing on his extensive research into social…
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The Biggest Mistake Entrepreneurs Make in Product Development – Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship
Having reviewed thousands of businesses and investing in multiple startups, Tech Coast Works Managing Director Jeff Greenberg knows a thing or two about product development. In this video in the Knowledge @ CSUF Entrepreneurship series taken at the CSUF Startup Incubator, Jeff goes into detail about the product development process and explains what the biggest…
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CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals
The main event of CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals is the culmination of a campus-wide search for the best business idea created by a current student or student team. Based off of a rigorous selection process, the top business concepts are presented by their creators to a panel of distinguished judges and to an eager…
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10 Rules Everyone Should Know About Patents @ CSUF Startup Incubator
Maybe you are trying to get a patent now or you have a great idea that you know you have to get patented before you start trying to sell it; either way, this is the talk for you! Before you make some of the common mistakes that happen when people try to get a patent…