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GSEA Student Entrepreneur Competition
EO Orange County is hosting its very first Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), the world’s premier business competition for undergraduate college students across the globe. GSEA connects the world’s emerging student entrepreneurs with peers, mentors and the opportunity to learn and grow through a worldwide competition. The Orange County EO Chapter is looking for students…
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Why do so many Startups Fail – Podcast Discussion
Recently, Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson joined a panel of businesspeople and academics to discuss why so many early stage companies fail. This is part of the Critical Mass for Business Radio Show Series and the participants included: Michael Sawitz, FastStart.studio Christopher Wright, Senior Commercial Capital Advisor with Capital Direct Dr. Deborah Ferber,…
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Why do so many Startups Fail? – July 25, 2014 Event
Update: You can listen to this radio show by clicking this sentence. On Friday, July 25 at 11:30am, Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson will be joining a panel to discuss the reasons why so many early stage companies fail. This event will take place at FastStart.studio in Irvine and you are welcomed to…
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3rd Quarter 2014 Orange County Business Survey
California State University, Fullerton’s Mihaylo College Dean, Dr. Anil Puri, just published the 3rd Quarter 2014 edition of the Orange County Business Index (OCBX). The OCBX is a survey of Orange County business leaders (owners, CEOs and managers) feelings regarding the overall condition of the economy and the generalities of their particular business. The overall…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor: Jerry Conrey
Jerry Conrey has been an integral part of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Program since 2002 when he first became a mentor. Jerry still serves as a mentor to our student-entrepreneurs and he also has funded the Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship for many years, participated as a panelist at a seminar on Patent…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor: Alan Mannason
Bringing more than 50 years of business experience with him, Alan Mannason (who recently turned 90 years old!) has been involved as a mentor to our students for more than a decade. Needless to say, Alan is a mainstay of the program and he has been a part of it for longer than most of…
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CSUF SUM Startup Weekend – July 2014
Our new Entrepreneurship fraternity, Sigma Upsilon Mu (SUM), is going to be hosting a Startup Weekend in July. If you are not familiar with SUM and what they do the best way to describe it is that they are dedicated to demystifying the startup process for first time-entrepreneurs. The founder, Robert Gates, has meticulously developed…
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Who Participated in the CSUF Business Plan Competition?
One of our main goals in hosting the Business Plan Competition is to spread the gospel, so to speak, of Entrepreneurship across the CSUF campus. Why? Well, we all have anecdotal evidence of CSUF students who want to start their own business and while many of these students are business students there are a lot…