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No-Tipping Restaurant Model
A while back, CSUF professor Dr. Atul Teckchandani wrote a piece titled The not-so-surprising failure of no-tipping restaurants and it brought up many points that I thought were pretty interesting. The main thesis of Dr. Teckchandani’s piece was that while there is some data suggesting that restaurants that switch to a no-tipping model experience increases…
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Sigma Upsilon Mu's 8 Hour Business Challenge at Cal State Fullerton
Sigma Upsilon Mu is the most active student group dedicated to entrepreneurship on the Cal State Fullerton campus and just a few days ago they held a great competition called the 8 Hour Business Challenge. This competition was open to university students from all across the area and required an amazing amount of work from…
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Phillip Stinis will be a Keynote Speaker at Phi Kappa Phi Event
If you’re a current CSUF student there’s a decent chance that Phillip Stinis has come to your classroom to talk about the CSUF Startup Incubator. In a couple of weeks, he, along with Karla Amador of Thrive Financial (and a sponsor of a CSUF Entrepreneurship scholarship), will be the keynote speakers at an important national…
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Embracing Change: Lessons in Leadership
All CSUF students are invited to meet Julie Greiner, ’75, Macy’s retired Senior Vice President. She will present Embracing Change: Lessons in Leadership at 11:30am on March 21 in the O’Brien Innovation Center, followed by a luncheon and networking. Students are to RSVP by March 15. This event is a first come, first serve event.…
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Hackpoly February 6-7
We can’t lie, Cal Poly Pomona is an awesome school and they have a great event for all you tinkerers, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and so on!!! Hackpoly will be held on February 6 and 7 this year and, according to their official website, Hackathons are where your crazy ideas become reality. Build anything—there are no restrictions…
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Titan Fast Pitch Competition
We recently hosted more than 500 middle school students, high school students, university students, Innovation Fair exhibitors, judges, family, and friends at the Titan Fast Pitch competition and it was an amazing event! It was a treat getting to hear all of the ideas from the different competitors and made all of the hard work…
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How to start a Business course for non-Business Majors at Cal State Fullerton
We love teaching entrepreneurship students the finer points of how to start a business, lean startups, MVPs, and the like so it is great that we also have a class to teach non-business majors the finer points of entrepreneurship now. Titled Business Administration 410: Starting and Managing a Small Business/Private Practice, this class is designed…
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How to Pitch your Business Idea in a Minute
The Titan Fast Pitch competition is on November 7 (Register now for a chance to win a scholarship) and I’m getting some questions on how to make an excellent pitch. To be sure, it’s a tough question and there is some creative license that goes into making a convincing pitch so no answer I give…
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Titan Fast Pitch – Intro Video
Thanks to current CSUF student Willie Holmes we have an introductory video for the Titan Fast Pitch Competition! Before we get to the video, however, I want to make sure that you are either competing in or attending the Titan Fast Pitch competition. If you haven’t done so already, go to http://csuffastpitch.com/ to register as…