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Raising Capital: What Every Startup Needs to Know | CSUF Startup Event March 13 on Zoom
CSUF Startup Incubator and Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson (“JJ”) will give a talk on how to pitch to investors. In reality, as an entrepreneur you are continuously pitching, or explaining, your idea to everyone you meet who is even tangentially involved in your business. You need to be able to pitch your…
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SoCal Celebrates Entrepreneurs 2023 (SCCE-23) | Event Tomorrow (Sat Feb 11)
SoCal Celebrates Entrepreneurship is tomorrow (Saturday, Feb 11 starting at 1pm)! Join us from 1pm to 5:30pm at the Titan Student Union at Cal State Fullerton as we honor community members and facilitate resources for innovators to build their own American Dream. This year’s event will feature California State Senator Josh Newman, who will give…
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SCCE-23 Panel & Fast Pitch – Event this Saturday at CSUF Titan Student Union
While entrepreneurs are sometimes called the “engine” of the economy and investors are called the “wheels” of the economy, what about all the individuals and firms that provide sage advice and services to facilitate and help navigate the business landscape for entrepreneurs – might they be the “transmission”? Take a “ride” in this panel discussion…
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Director Jackson Honored As One of OC’s Most Influential
CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Jackson is honored as one of Orange County’s most influential individuals in the annual Orange County Business Journal‘s OC500. The OC500 honors individuals from all sectors of the Orange County economy. Honorees range from top executives at the largest publicly held companies to up-and-coming entrepreneurs, as well as a…
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Please Support CSUF Veterans on March 9 Titan Day of Giving!!!
As you may know, I teach new venture creation in the classroom and I apply this knowledge with real startups in our CSUF Startup Incubator. It is my observation that successful Entrepreneurs tend to share a few common characteristics: Persistence – While many successful entrepreneurs are comfortable with the possibility of failing, it doesn’t mean they…
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How the CSU System Helps Student-Entrepreneurs
Jim Cooper, one of the most involved mentors we have and an impressive person all around (I should do an interview with him soon), recently posted a story to Facebook written by the CSU (read their article, Empowering the Innovators, here) with a blurb from him at the end of the post and I had…
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Why Nailing it, then Scaling it almost always makes more sense
Do you think funding is necessary to launch a really successful business? Look at Quibi. Quibi had some of the most well respected founders, tremendous amounts of funding, and it’s listing like the Titanic after it bumped into that iceberg. Funding is not the deciding factor in determining the success or failure of a business.…
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Online Event Monday May 11: Don’t let the Coronavirus Kill Your Business – CSUF Startup Incubator Panel
Join our panel of experts in a discussion about not only how to survive the pandemic but grow your business out of it. About this Event The coronavirus pandemic has quickly become the biggest challenge the world has faced in generations and many businesses have already failed. Before the world returns to some sort of…