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CSUF Titan Fast Pitch Winners!
We want to send a big thank you to everyone who participated in Titan Fast Pitch and helped make it a success! We have our winners for the 2022 Titan Fast Pitch competition! In total, there were over 300 students who competed this year to find the best student entrepreneurs. Students from middle school, high…
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Finals Recap – CSUF Titan Fast Pitch 2021
The masks were on. The distances were social. The pitches were still amazing! CSUF Titan Fast Pitch 2021 was a great success! As covid and our understanding of it continues to evolve, so does the way we teach the next generation of entrepreneurs. Until 2020, Titan Fast Pitch was an in-person competition, In 2020, Titan…
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Announcing 2021 CSUF Titan Fast Pitch Finalists
With over 2,000 reviews from our judges we can now announce the 2021 CSUF Titan Fast Pitch Finalists! Thank you to all the students who submitted their 90 second pitches to this competition and to the many educators and mentors who helped students put their best foot forward. Picking the finalists was not easy (Thank…
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CSUF Incubator + OCTANE = Student Success
Entrepreneurs come from all backgrounds, they’re not just business majors. CSUF Startup Incubator + OCTANE STEAM Fellows = Student Success The FedEx founder got his idea in the Marine Corps. MMA fighter Conor McGregor took a whiskey brand from zero to $600 million. Elon Musk has a degree in physics. The STEAM Fellowship at OCTANE is a…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship: 5 Questions with David Kinnear
Over the years, David Kinnear has served as a mentor in the CSUF Entrepreneurship program. His wisdom has helped students in the classroom and first-time entrepreneurs at the CSUF Startup Incubator.
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What is the most important lesson you learned as a CSUF Entrepreneurship student?
Most entrepreneurs have to figure it out as they go along but students in the CSUF Entrepreneurship program learn that process from start to finish. As Patrick Hayes, a CSUF Entrepreneurship alumni, says, you may never make a business plan, he hasn’t and has started four businesses, but learning that process and what it takes…
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How CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentors help students learn about business
One of the key differentiators of a CSUF Entrepreneurship education is that students have access to a group of over 700 mentors. These mentors are entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals of all stripes and they provide students with expert advice in every aspect of starting and growing a business. Current CSUF Entrepreneurship student Blanca Rojas talks…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship student Blanca Rojas on her experience in the Titan Fast Pitch
Current CSUF Entrepreneurship student Blanca Rojas talks about her experience as a finalist in the 2020 Titan Fast Pitch competition and how it has helped her develop her business concept. https://csufentrepreneurship.com/tita… 🐘 🐘 CSUF Entrepreneurship: https://business.fullerton.edu/engage… 🐘 🐘 CSUF Consulting for existing businesses: https://business.fullerton.edu/engage… 🐘 🐘 Work with the best entrepreneurial coaches to help you…
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Shoutout LA Piece on CSUF Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson
Missed this one a while back. Great interview with JJ about what he’s doing mentoring startups and through Titan Angels. Click link for whole article: https://shoutoutla.com/meet-john-bradley-jj-jackson-investor-startup-adviser-professor/ Hi John Bradley “JJ”, we’d love to hear more about how you thought about starting your own business?I started Titan Angels LLC, a seed investment fund, in early 2017.…
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Titans Talk Business | Stories of Entrepreneurship from CSUF Business Leaders
This virtual talk featured Paul Wasserman ’87, co-founder/former CEO of Ebates.com and CSUF adjunct professor of criminal law; Ben Gold ’04, ’12, CEO, Good Funding, and Executive Council immediate past president; Laurie Resnick ’77, co-CEO of Rolling Greens; and Bryan Ruef, founder of 10-8 Systems. The alumni panel discussed the challenges and advantages of starting…