CSUF Conrey Center for Entrepreneurship

“Entrepreneurs in Residence”- Cal State Fullerton’s Center for Entrepreneurship

The CSUF Center for Entrepreneurship’s (CFE) “Entrepreneurs in Residence” program plays a vital role in the educational development of business students in the entrepreneurial concentration. These experienced businessmen and women, provide students with a mentor that is a knowledgeable source of real world business applications, strategies, operations, and problem solving capabilities. The mentor’s role of…

March 12, 2013
Success Story: Alex Rigo '09

One of our recent alums, Alex Rigo ’09, shared some of his postgraduate entrepreneurial experiences with us and the following is what he had to say: The CSUF Entrepreneurship Program bridged the gap between textbook business examples and seeing the real day-to-day human condition of a business owner and operator. It was refreshing to finally…

March 11, 2013
Research Week 2013

Research Week lasts a whole week but the really interesting stuff is happening, in my opinion, on Friday March 22 in the Fullerton Marriott. Why? Because that is when we will be there along with our friends over at the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) (for more information about the SBDC’s involvement). This event features…

March 7, 2013
CSUF Entrepreneurship Scholarships

We have two exciting scholarships for you to apply to this semester. But first, here are a couple of extremely important points: The deadline to apply is Friday, March 15 at 11:59pm PST To apply you must complete THE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION and bring it to SGMH 3280 by the deadline (emailing a scanned copy would…

February 25, 2013
Deadline to Sign Up for CSUF Business Plan Competition Looms

It’s looming now but the deadline will be perfectly clear this Friday, since the deadline to sign up is at 11:59pm that night. In an effort to get as many of you to sign up we are going to offer an award; here’s how it will work. Currently, we have approximately 35 people signed up…

February 12, 2013
You Should Think like an Entrepreneur

Entrepreneurship is not just a topic of interest for someone starting a business, it is a mindset. In fact, this mindset has been so crucial that I recommend that every college student should take at least one entrepreneurship course – regardless of whether they actually want to start a business or not. Why? First, entrepreneurship…

February 12, 2013
CSUF Entrepreneurship Program

The CSUF Entrepreneurship Program is one of the leading university-level entrepreneurship programs in the world (and one of the most unique as well). Our program includes six main classes: four classes require student teams to work on an actual consulting project for a local business and the other two classes require the students to develop…

February 11, 2013
CSUF Entrepreneurship Program Mentors

Every semester we need approximately 60 mentors for the CSUF Entrepreneurship Program. Our mentors are people who have extensive experience (either direct: entrepreneur, working in an entrepreneurial organization, etc.; or indirect: accountant, lawyer, banker, etc. with experience with entrepreneurial organizations). Basically, there are two types of classes that people can mentor in: Student Consulting Projects…

February 11, 2013
CSUF Business Plan Competition 2013 Supplement

For Information on the current CSUF Business Plan Competition click HERE (All the links on this page, except for the one above, are for the 2013 competition and some of them may no longer be active. For information on the current competition click on the link above.) ALERT: SIGNUPS EXTENDED TO SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24 AT…

February 4, 2013
CSUF Business Plan Competition Boot Camp 2013 Summary

*****NOTE: FOR RESOURCES YOU CAN USE PLEASE CLICK HERE ***** The CSUF Business Plan Competition 2013 is a CSUF competition that aims to help stimulate entrepreneurial activities amongst its students. In an effort to help foment some of this activity we have been hosting some Boot Camps over the last couple of weeks and we…

February 2, 2013