CSUF Conrey Center for Entrepreneurship

Concept to Launch to Growth

Alumnus, Entrepreneur, Bootlegger

What happens when your hobby outgrows its hobby status? If you are experimenting with making craft beer in your garage, you end up supplying the entire neighborhood. That is what happened to Aaron Barkenhagen ’07. His love of good beer and his loyalty to his Fullerton neighbors created a symbiotic relationship that still exists today.…

January 18, 2017
CSUF Consulting is the Creative Solution

Creativity is the lifeblood of business and a CSUF Consulting team is the perfect way to inject some creativity into your business. All businesses can benefit from a fresh perspective and our teams are adept at finding solutions where most others would not have even looked. And please make sure to sign up for the…

January 16, 2017
A CSUF Startup Incubator Resident Launches!

Ben Yip is the Resident from the CSUF Startup Incubator who has now launched the alpha platform for his company Aidtree and he is aiming to revolutionize philanthropy! It’s a great story and we hope there will be a lot more to come from him in the near future. You can read more about Aidtree,…

January 9, 2017
How a CSUF Startup Incubator Resident will Revolutionize Philanthropy

Think about all of the purchases you make with coupons. You have probably used a coupon to buy a meal, to do an activity while on vacation, or maybe even when getting a procedure like Lasik surgery done. Now, what if I told you that there is a company that is a CSUF Startup Incubator…

January 6, 2017
How A CSUF Entrepreneurship Alumnus Follows His Passion

Happy New Year everybody! As you will read in this week’s CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider the New Year is the perfect time to make this resolution: Do something you are passionate about every day. This may only lead you to starting a hobby that you thoroughly enjoy or, as was the case with Geoff Pascual ’16…

January 2, 2017
Pop Art for a New Generation

Children are taught to embrace life and experience different activities and hobbies like art. For most most people, art is a hobby and for those who pursue art as a vocation many find commercial success elusive. Cal State Fullerton alumnus Geoff Pascual ’16 has already had some commercial success with his company Pascual Productions through…

December 31, 2016
Happy Holidays from CSUF Entrepreneurship

This is the last CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider of 2016 and we want to thank everyone who contributed to the CSUF Entrepreneurship community! Without all of you we could not have accomplished nearly as much as we did. 2016 is winding down and we sincerely hope that you are finding some time to spend with family…

December 26, 2016
CSUF Startup Incubator Featured in CSU News Article

News of the CSUF Startup Incubator has filtered up to the reporters for the entire Cal State University system! In an article titled How to Hatch a Company: The CSU’s Incubators and Accelerators, the CSUF Startup Incubator was featured. Here’s the bit about us: Based at the Mihaylo College of Business and Economics, Center for…

December 21, 2016
Ask an Entrepreneur!

As you will read in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider, we are launching Ask an Entrepreneur! We hope that this will become a great way to answer questions that many people in our community have and that these answers will help people become better entrepreneurs. One trait I frequently witness in the entrepreneurs…

December 19, 2016
A Closer Look at CSUF Consulting

In this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider (sign up now!) we highlight a very successful CSUF Consulting Project and announce the acceptance of one of our current students into the CSUF Startup Incubator as a Resident! A couple of weeks ago I highlighted the Hilton Hotels project that one of our CSUF Consulting teams…

December 12, 2016