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How to Profit from your Intellectual Property @ CSUF Startup Incubator
This Wednesday at 6pm at the Cal State Fullerton campus in Irvine we will be hosting a talk by Justin Sanders titled How to Profit from your Intellectual Property. In order to register, please go to the Eventbrite page. Intellectual property is becoming increasingly important when it comes to business valuation as well as success…
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The "Three T's" of Starting a Business
What is it, exactly, that separates successful entrepreneurs form those that are less successful? It’s a loaded question and any honest answer comes replete with a healthy amount of caveats but it’s still a very valid question as well. And this was the question that Chris McCarthy, the Social Media Specialist for Mihaylo College, asked…
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Getting New Things Done with CSUF Entrepreneurship
In this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider (sign up to get this newsletter delivered to your email box every week) Director John Bradley Jackson highlights the new book by Professor David Obstfeld: Getting New Things Done. Getting new things done requires people to work together towards a common goal and for businesses that means…
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Startup Funding Option: Family and Friends
I am sitting here watching a great presentation by startup expert Jim Cooper, co-founder of Braid Theory, and he is talking about funding. It’s a complicated subject, or at least it can get that way, but I think one of the main complications is that people make it more complicated than it needs to be.…
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Event Reminder: How to Fund your Startup
Just a friendly reminder that we will be hosting an event with startup expert Jim Cooper tomorrow evening at 6pm where he will discuss some of the innovative funding sources that most entrepreneurs know nothing about. Make sure to register by clicking this link. Here is some information about the event: As an entrepreneur, there…
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The Patent Process
On July 12, the CSUF Startup Incubator had a guest speaker to discuss the topic of patents. Austin Bonderer, a patent lawyer, visited the Incubator in order to present potential patent landmines that small businesses and startups should be aware of. He specifically addressed an answer to the question “What happens after you have your…
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Fall 2017 Course Recommendation for CSUF: Startup Business Class for non-Business Majors
Starting a business is a goal for many people and not just those who major in business. In fact, many entrepreneurs did not major in business but they all needed to learn how to start a business. At Cal State Fullerton we have a class built for the specific needs of innovative non-business majors who…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship's High Impact Practices
There are many ways to get an education but in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider Director Jackson discusses how our program uses intensive projects with real world implications to enrich our students’ education and increase graduation rates. CSUF Entrepreneurship students will tell you two things about their education at Cal State Fullerton: 1.…
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Getting New Things Done – A New Book on Innovation with Stanford University Press by CSUF Professor David Obstfeld
Cal State Fullerton Professor David Obstfeld has just published a new book called “Getting New Things Done” with Stanford University Press. New things get done all the time. But how do new things actually get done? Cal State Fullerton Entrepreneurship Professor David Obstfeld tackles this question head on. Drawing on his extensive research into social…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Students Get Hands On Experience
One of the critical components of the CSUF Entrepreneurship program that we are very proud of is that our curriculum features many projects with real world implications. We have the CSUF Consulting program where students work in groups to help develop comprehensive strategy reports for existing businesses and startups. We also have a pair of…
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