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CSUF Entrepreneur Success Story: Linsey Fornaca '08
You could say the spark started back in high school when The Wedding Planner movie came out (2001), because ever since then, my sister and I have known that wedding planning and coordination was the direction our lives were meant to go. We can prove it because every class project and senior project was fashioned…
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CSUF Entrepreneur Success Story: Samer Baroudi '10
After graduating from CSUF with a Business Degree in Entrepreneurship I have been very busy and I have cherished every moment of it! Coming out of college in 2010, I began working in Sales at a web security company in my hometown here in the Bay Area. Before long, I was offered what I consider…
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CSUF Student-led Business Consulting Success Story – HCP National
Several years ago we engaged with the CSUF Student-led Business Consulting Program led by Professor John Bradley Jackson for advisement on our marketing. We wanted new ideas for our insurance brokerage, which specializes in health care, with an emphasis in Medical Malpractice. The CSUF Student-led Business Consulting group that we hired came up with a…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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. 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! For…
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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…