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CSUF Entrepreneur Success Story – Brian De La Rosa

I graduated from CSUF in June 2006 and, before I could enjoy some downtime, I quickly began working in the marketing department at Disney Consumer Products. After four years at Disney and then a couple more years jumping around at other entertainment companies, I finally took the plunge to start my own business and left …

Leveraging the CSUF Entrepreneurship Alum Network

The CSUF Entrepreneurship Program has many great friends and one of those friends, Entrepreneur Elympics, has a lot to be proud of. In the picture below, every person either is or graduated from CSUF and works/interns at Entrepreneur Elympics or one of their partner companies. Entrepreneur Elympics met these people through our Student-led Business Consulting …

CSUF Entrepreneurship by the Numbers (Infographic)

The CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship was established in 2001 and the Entrepreneurship concentration debuted a year later. Since then, we have done a number of remarkable things and instead of doing a 2,000 word column on our history we decided we’d let that stats do the talking.

Dan Black Speaks to Fullerton Entrepreneurship Students

Dan Black ’67 was gracious enough to speak at two of Professor John Bradley Jackson’s Entrepreneurship classes yesterday and talked about what it’s really like being an entrepreneur. Mr. Black has started multiple businesses and has been a great benefactor to CSUF for nearly two decades and has recently become more active with the Entrepreneurship …

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 …

Entrepreneurship Scholarship Winners 2013

Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship Robert Gates won this $3,000 award and is well on his way to becoming a serial entrepreneur. Conrey-Scholarship-2013—Robert-Gates State Farm Scholarship Megan Baptista won this $1,000 scholarship from State Farm! Michael Sawitz’ FastStart.studio Scholarships FastStart.studio is once again offering startup support to three CSUF student founded teams! …

Success Story: Joanne Vo '11

I have nothing but great words for the Center for Entrepreneurship.  The program was phenomenal and was played a substantial role in my self-growth as the entrepreneur that I am today. Shortly after graduating in 2011, like all my peers, I was in search of what to do and pondered on what career path I …

Diana Ho Designs makes Strategic Changes

About a year ago we first brought you the story of Diana Ho and her boutique clothing company: Diana Ho Designs. Instead of going into a written explanation of what it is she set out to do I’ll just post a couple of pictures. As you can tell from the above pictures Diana definitely has …

CSUF Business Plan Competition 2013 Finals

After months of hard work by our student entrepreneurs we have a winner! But before we get ahead of ourselves here let us first talk about the Finals. It was a morning event and, unlike the first CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals, we had good weather, which was nice. The three finalists – Synova Life …

Success Story: Phillip Stinis '11 MBA

Tapping Success “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker T. Washington As a child, my father told me inspirational stories of my grandfather – an immigrant …