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CSUF Fast Pitch Business Competition Highlights – Spring 2014
The CSUF Fast Pitch Business Competition was a huge success earlier this year in February. Thanks to our sponsors – Wells Fargo, the Black Family Trust and Guchereau Company – we sponsored an event that brought together university and high school students from all over the Orange and Los Angeles County areas. (For more info,…
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2014 Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship Last Call
This is just a friendly little reminder that your applications for the 2014 Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship are due this Saturday, March 15. If you haven’t done so already APPLY FOR THIS SCHOLARSHIP NOW!!! Amount:$3,000 Established by: This scholarship was established by Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers on behalf of…
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Pop-up Stores: The Perfect MVP
An important milestone when attempting to start a new business is to create something that can be sold (or at least offered) to customers. The goal is to get something in the hands of your customers quickly and then continue to refine the product or service based on their feedback. In lean startup lingo, this…
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Why I Major in Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton
The following was written by Robert Gates who is majoring in Entrepreneurship at CSUF. My name is Robert Gates and I’m currently a senior at California State University, Fullerton studying Entrepreneurship. When I first came to CSUF, I knew that I wanted to own a business but, at the time, I was unaware that the…
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CSUF Business Plan Competition Winner on Radio
John Chi, the founder of Synova Life Sciences, was recently interviewed on the Unfinished Business radio show with Renee White Fraser, Ph.D. and Betsy Berkhemer-Credaire. John, fresh off of strong showings at Survivor8 and the CSUF Fast Pitch Competition, talked with the hosts about his business and the lessons that he has learned along the…
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CSUF Student-led Business Consulting Program Wins National Competition
Congratulations are in order for two of our hardworking Student-led Business Consulting Teams! Professor John Bradley Jackson’s Undergraduate team took home the national title and Dr. David Leibsohn’s MBA team took home second place in their respective categories at the Small Business Institute‘s National Project of the Year Competition. To put this into perspective, these…
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CSUF Business Plan Competition Sign Up Extended
Due to some problems we had with our TITANium Community we have decided to extend the sign up for this competition through Sunday, March 9 at 11:59:00pm PST. Since this date is after our original due date for the Business Concept Questionnaire we are also extending the deadline for that to Sunday, March 9 at…
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CSUF Patent Troll Seminar – Full Video
At this seminar, panelists Roger N. Behle (IP litigator at Foley, Bezek, Behle & Curtis, LLP), Jerry Conrey (Principal at Conrey Insurance Brokers) and Dr. Robert Kovacev (Professor of Finance at CSUF) discussed: The role of a patent troll and how to identify one Other intellectual property threats Current and pending legislation designed to address…
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CSUF Student-Entrepreneur Project – Nissan GT-R
Every semester in the Marketing 450 Visual Marketing course students are tasked with creating a short film about something that they love. One of the students in the class this semester is Evan Ewing and he has decided to do his project and the Nissan GT-R. But he needs some help to pull this off.…
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