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CSUF Mentors Middle School Students in STEM and Entrepreneurship
At the Center for Entrepreneurship we definitely have a fascination with STEM. One of our Residents at the CSUF Startup Incubator, KIDnetic Energy Labs, has it as their mission to help teach students about STEM; Amerika Bernal, one of our recent graduates, is pursuing a career in STEM; and we have been heavily involved in…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Update from Director Jackson
Here are a few hundred words from Director John Bradley Jackson: Jerry Conrey is a tremendous supporter of the CSUF Entrepreneurship program and he will be joining us this Wednesday at 6pm for his talk/Q&A titled Insurance and Risk Management Questions Answered! This is a tremendous opportunity to find out what kinds of insurance your…
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CSUF Business Plan Competition 2016
Starting in January, approximately 100 student-entrepreneurs entered the CSUF Business Plan Competition to see if their idea was the best on campus. After months of submitting business concepts, presenting in front of judges, and more than 150 attendees at the Finals we can now announce the winner… But first, lets do a brief recap of…
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CSUF Entrepreneur Alumni Deep Patel is Revolutionizing the Energy Market
We are extremely proud of CSUF Entrepreneur Alumni Deep Patel’s success over the years. He is a rock star who is the founder and CEO of GigaWatt, a company that installs solar panels on residential homes to help people power their homes. Recently, NBC interviewed Deep and CEO/CMO Harold Tan of GigaWatt about the industry…
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Startup Failure and Success: 3-5 lessons from the university of hard knocks
Dr. Gerard Beenen has had an illustrious career in organizational development with stops at Ernst & Young Management Consulting, Bain & Company, VP and co-founder of Neodesic Corporation and FleetXchange.com where he raised $3.2MM in financing, and now Associate Professor of Management and Management Department Vice-Chair at California State University, Fullerton. We are honored to…
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Will you be Attending the CSUF Business Plan Competition?
We just welcomed another Resident to the CSUF Startup Incubator! This company’s mission is to revolutionize philanthropy through technological innovation. The founder for this company has an impressive background and I am sure that I will be writing more about hist startup in the future. Changing gears to CSUF students, a little over a week…
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Meet The Three Finalists for the CSUF Business Plan Competition
The CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals are coming next week! [Register now!] It promises to be an interesting look into what our student-entrepreneurs are capable of. Starting at noon on Thursday, 4/7 in Pavilion A of the Titan Student Union we open up registration and host an Innovation Fair where we will showcase the projects…
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Call for CSUF Biotech and Business Teams – Funds are Available
The National Science Foundation’s I-Corps program is offering grants of $2,500 (and potentially much more to excellent student teams!) to student teams working on the commercialization of biotechnology. Each student team needs at least one member with experience working with the biotech and they also need members majoring or with experience in business. Applications are…
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Entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talks to CSUF Entrepreneurship Students
Recently, we were lucky enough to have serial entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talk to one of Director Jackson’s classes. Mr. Kovacs talked on many different facets of what he sees as crucial components of his success as an entrepreneur and what follows are the top 10 notes taken from Mr. Kovacs’ talk by CSUF Entrepreneur student…