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Sigma Upsilon Mu’s 8 Hour Business Challenge Was a Success!
Sigma Upsilon Mu, a co-ed entrepreneurship fraternity, had their 8 Hour Business Challenge on Sunday September 23. So what exactly is this? How the 8 Hour Business Challenge Works Students registered themselves to compete in teams or individually (who were then put into teams). For the first half of the day competitors were coached by…
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CSUF Startup Incubator Resident Launches Notary App
Need a notary? New app will let you call one like an Uber (you may need a subscription to view) is an article in the OC Register that is about the launch of an exciting new service called Aruta. Isaiah Lopez, the founder of Aruta, along with his business partner Pooka Platner have been…
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Cal State Fullerton Rap with President Fram Virjee and Alumnus Rachel Herzog
There are a lot of great things to say about Cal State Fullerton but I do not think those superlatives have ever been put into prose like this before. Enjoy the rhymes from President Fram Virjee and CSUF Entrepreneurship Alumnus Rachel Herzog!
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CSUF Student Club Kicks Off New School Year
The CSUF Entrepreneurship community is really an agglomeration of many different communities and one of the vital components of our community are our student clubs. Currently, we have three with the oldest being the Entrepreneur Society and the youngest being Student Innovation Collective (SINC). In the middle is Sigma Upsilon Mu (SUM), the entrepreneurship fraternity…
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Remembering Alan Mannason
Alan Mannason, Mentor in the CSUF Entrepreneurship classroom for 15 consecutive years, has passed away at age 94 years old. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924 and moved to Los Angeles in 1937 (when movies cost $.10 and a Baby Ruth candy bar cost $.05). He remembered that the train ride from Chicago…
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CSUF Consulting – Take your Business to the Next Level
Every semester, dozens of businesses turn to the consulting teams that Cal State Fullerton has to devise comprehensive strategies for taking their businesses to the next level. These businesses have a wide range of goals in mind, including: How to streamline operations Implementing cost controls Development of a marketing strategy that leverages digital and print…
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Leveraging the Gig Economy for Entrepreneurial Success @ CSUF Startup [Event]
What is the “gig economy“? The gig economy is comprised of all those side jobs that you see your family and friends doing: everything from being an Uber driver to being a photo editor on the side. But the gig economy has become so much more than that. Many successful professionals have embraced the gig…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Book Creating New Ventures Covered in OC Register
Launching a business is a daunting task but one of the ways to make it less so is by having mentors. Mentors are the kind of people who have been there, done that, and they can help guide you through the entrepreneurial maze. Don’t know what kind of business entity you should use? Knowing someone…
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CSUF Business School Popular for Minority Students – OC Register
One of the many things that I think separates Cal State Fullerton from most every other school is the amount of diversity that I see in every class. And here’s an article from the OC Register confirming that (read full article here): More than 2,500 Asian students and 2,800 Hispanic students — making up nearly…
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Titan Fast Pitch 2017 Recap
The sixth Titan Fast Pitch has come and gone and it was a great success! We had an estimated 400 people in attendance with more than 150 students competing. This year, we had students from multiple universities including Cal State Fullerton, CSULA, Chapman, UCLA, Cal Poly Pomona, and probably a couple of others that I…
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