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CSUF Business Plan Competition 2016
Starting in January, approximately 100 student-entrepreneurs entered the CSUF Business Plan Competition to see if their idea was the best on campus. After months of submitting business concepts, presenting in front of judges, and more than 150 attendees at the Finals we can now announce the winner… But first, lets do a brief recap of…
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Create the Future Contest
During the course of any given day we receive a lot of emails about all the different competitions that are out there for entrepreneurs (these are great ways to network with other entrepreneurs and potential investors and you can also win some money as well). This one came from one of our great mentors, John…
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Will you be Attending the CSUF Business Plan Competition?
We just welcomed another Resident to the CSUF Startup Incubator! This company’s mission is to revolutionize philanthropy through technological innovation. The founder for this company has an impressive background and I am sure that I will be writing more about hist startup in the future. Changing gears to CSUF students, a little over a week…
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Titan Fast Pitch Competition
We recently hosted more than 500 middle school students, high school students, university students, Innovation Fair exhibitors, judges, family, and friends at the Titan Fast Pitch competition and it was an amazing event! It was a treat getting to hear all of the ideas from the different competitors and made all of the hard work…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Teaches Kids STEM and Lean Startup
With funding from the National Science Foundation, Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson, CSUF Entrepreneurship students Amerika Bernal and Monica Mercado, along with other contributors from the CSUF community have been teaching seventh- and eighth-grade students STEM and entrepreneurial lessons. These students recently completed their year long program where they learned the technical and…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Director on what Cities are best for Startups
Center for Entrepreneurship and CSUF Startup Incubator Director John Bradley Jackson recently spoke about what is important for startups. Based off of the title of this post, the answer shouldn’t surprise you in the least. “Geographic location is vital to entrepreneurs, for access to investors, talent, advisers and the presence of other startups, which act…
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Phillip Stinis – CSUF Startup Incubator Entrepreneur in Residence
In January 2015, California State University Fullerton (CSUF) opened the CSUF Startup Incubator in Placentia. As the Entrepreneur in Residence, I have the pleasure of working with our startups firsthand while growing the Incubator as a startup itself. For those who haven’t heard yet, the CSUF Startup Incubator is looking to take highly scalable, early…
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CSUF Students Named Innovation Fellows
The CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship proudly announces that Mr. Cristian Sanchez (Entrepreneurship major) and Ms. Amerika Bernal (Accounting major) have been named “Innovation Fellows” at the nationally acclaimed University Innovation Fellows program, which is sponsored by Stanford’s and VentureWell’s Epicenter organization. This video explains exactly what Epicenter does to promote engineering and innovation:
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Startups + Incubators = Good Sense
For many startups, joining an incubator can make good sense. Yet, incubators are not all alike; this requires the startup to do some homework and ask some basic questions. The first question to address is for the startup itself. What type of help does your startup need? Most startups will answer this question saying that…