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How Entrepreneurial is Orange County?
John Bradley Jackson, Director of the CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship, reviewed the findings of a recent study about Entrepreneurship in Orange County. The presentation happened at the November 20, 2013 meeting of SCORE’s Orange County Chapter. The local SCORE chapter is the nation’s largest and most productive chapter of the SBA funded organization which is…
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Let a CSUF Organizational Audit help your Business Reach new Heights!
Employees are a company’s most important asset but all too often they aren’t treated as such. Over the last couple of years our program – which has been in operation for more than two decades and has a strong record of helping clients – has developed a comprehensive Organizational Audit consulting service that helps our…
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Hunan University visits CSUF and FastStart.studio
A delegation of MBA students from Hunan University visited CSUF a couple of weeks ago. John Bradley Jackson, the Director for the Center for Entrepreneurship and a Professor of Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton, delivered a seminar to our visitors focusing on the state of entrepreneurship in America, California and in Orange County…
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BUAD 410 – Starting and Managing a Small Business
Most of the students who are reading this are probably business majors and, as business majors, I’m sure that your non-business major friends have asked you what it takes to run a business. You explain the basics to them as best you can but there’s no way you are able to go into enough depth…
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Why Human Resource Practices are Important
While it is fairly obvious how marketing, sales, product development and manufacturing contribute to an organization’s success, the link between human resources and firm success has been much more ambiguous. Measuring how the sales department affects a firm’s revenues is quite simple. But it’s much harder to measure the effects of changes in hiring, training,…
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Ten Thirty One Productions Valued at $10 Million
Halloween has become big business and the latest example of that was when Ten Thirty One Productions, which operates the Los Angeles Haunted Hayride was valued by Mark Cuban at $10,000,000 (in all actuality, he probably values it at something more than that due to his extremely quick draw on the deal, but he invested $2M…
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CSUF Small Business Bash
The CSUF Entrepreneur Society will be holding its second Small Business Bash on Tuesday, November 12 in the Central Quad. This is a great opportunity for local businesses to promote their products/services to a large group of upwardly mobile young adults (if you want your business to participate in this event please contact them by…
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How I beat a Patent Troll – Drew Curtis
On January 22, 2014, the Center for Entrepreneurship will host a panel that will address the pernicious affects that patent trolls can have on small business. The panel will be made up of a range of people who will be able to give attendees a clear view of what patent trolls and other IP trolls…