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CSUF Entrepreneurship alumna opens business in Australia
After many months of traveling, I found myself in Cairns, Australia. To find a way of truly embracing this place and meeting as many people as possible, I tapped into my entrepreneurial spirit and started a coffee stand at a local farmers market. Rusty’s Farmers Market is centrally located in the heart of Cairns City.…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Alumna Makes Travel a Goal
In the best-selling book “The 4-Hour Workweek”, author Timothy Ferriss says that we shouldn’t wait till retirement to truly enjoy our lives. Most of us think we need to wait till then because we don’t have the financial resources to do it now. Ferris’s book provides guidelines for how to do so. Annie Nguyen, one…
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Titan Fast Pitch Competition
Clear your calendar – It’s going down! The Titan Fast Pitch Competition kicks off Saturday November 8th, 2014 and you’re invited! Watch the hottest student-entrepreneurs compete for a spot on the winner’s podium, and their share of scholarships. All finalists are chosen in real time, by the crowd, via mobile phone. Students that survive, endure…
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Why I Majored in Entrepreneurship at CSUF: Sam Lee '14
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it” – Albert Einstein “There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks” – Albert Einstein “For without struggle, there is no progress” – Frederick Douglas With these three quotes, I have described our entire Entrepreneurship…
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CSUF Center for Innovation
The Daily Titan’s Cesar Gamboa has published a nice piece about our new center called the Center for Innovation. Spearheaded by Director John Bradley Jackson and Chairman of the Board Mike Ames, the Center for Innovation (CFI) will serve as a business incubator to the extended CSUF community. The first outpost for the CFI will…
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CSUF Concert Under the Stars – Last Tickets Available
We have two tickets left for the Concert Under the Stars jazz concert that will be happening this weekend on the CSUF campus. All proceeds from the sale of these tickets goes to supporting CSUF Entrepreneurship students and other CSUF programs. If you are interested in attending this event as guests of the Center for…
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Focus on Finding Customers
When starting out, the most important thing for entrepreneurs to remember is that the goal is to offer a product or service that solves a pressing problem or need for customers. Don’t get too attached to your initial ideas. Rather let input from prospective and actual customers guide the decision as to what products or…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Announces Fast Pitch Competition for November 8, 2014
The Center for Entrepreneurship is proud to announce that their next Fast Pitch Competition will be held on Saturday, November 8, 2014. Kicking off at 10:00am this event will feature University and High School tracks (registration info here) and the top finishers from both tracks will win prizes. General registration is free for all contestants…