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Entrepreneur Mentor Office Hours with Dave Kinnear
From 5pm to 8pm this Thursday Dave Kinnear, veteran CSUF Entrepreneurship mentor and Executive Coach, has open office hours. This is the perfect opportunity to talk with a great business mind. Working on a startup? Have a question about what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Developing the next great piece of technology and you…
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The Entrepreneur's Guide on how to Increase your SEO Rankings
The Entrepreneur’s Guide on how to Increase your SEO Rankings with Jason Khoo at the CSUF Startup Incubator this Wednesday at 6pm at the CSUF Startup Incubator. We hope to see you there! Search engines are the primary resource consumers use when making buying decisions. This is a revolutionary change in the way that products…
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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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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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Cal State Fullerton Mentoring Program
Mentors are a pivotal component of the CSUF Entrepreneurship program. We have dozens of student teams every semester working on consulting projects for local businesses and on developing their own startups. It’s an amazing process that helps bring real life situations into the classroom for our students and the mentors serve as an invaluable bridge…
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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…
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Why I Major in Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton
The following was written by Robert Gates who is majoring in Entrepreneurship at CSUF. My name is Robert Gates and Iām currently a senior at California State University, Fullerton studying Entrepreneurship. When I first came to CSUF, I knew that I wanted to own a business but, at the time, I was unaware that the…
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Rance's Chicago Pizza
Rance’s Chicago Pizza, one of our amazing clients in our Student-led Business Consulting Program, was recently featured on the show California’s Best. Here’s the segment: (Problems viewing? Go here) If you are interested in becoming a client in our program please visit our website and fill out a Request for Consulting document. If you’d rather…