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Cal State Fullerton Alumnus set to Release Movie About Mental Illness
One of the many things I love about entrepreneurship is the fact that you can see the results of entrepreneurial people in almost every part of life. Whether it be technology, medicine, a clothing line, or, as is the case with Natalie Rodriguez, a movie. The movie, titled The Extraordinary Ordinary, just released a new…
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CSUF Student Club Kicks Off New School Year
The CSUF Entrepreneurship community is really an agglomeration of many different communities and one of the vital components of our community are our student clubs. Currently, we have three with the oldest being the Entrepreneur Society and the youngest being Student Innovation Collective (SINC). In the middle is Sigma Upsilon Mu (SUM), the entrepreneurship fraternity…
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Remembering Alan Mannason
Alan Mannason, Mentor in the CSUF Entrepreneurship classroom for 15 consecutive years, has passed away at age 94 years old. He was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924 and moved to Los Angeles in 1937 (when movies cost $.10 and a Baby Ruth candy bar cost $.05). He remembered that the train ride from Chicago…
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Leveraging the Gig Economy for Entrepreneurial Success @ CSUF Startup [Event]
What is the “gig economy“? The gig economy is comprised of all those side jobs that you see your family and friends doing: everything from being an Uber driver to being a photo editor on the side. But the gig economy has become so much more than that. Many successful professionals have embraced the gig…
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Building a Strong Culture from Startup to Mature Company
Last week, CSUF Entrepreneurship mentor and veteran executive coach for Vistage Dave Kinnear gave a great talk on the importance of culture for any organization and how to effectively build a great culture that will grow as your business grows. According to Dave, in order to accomplish this you first need to know how culture…
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Entrepreneur Pitch Opportunity: Orange County VC and Angel Investor Conference
Being able to pitch your business well is a critical skill that every entrepreneur should posses. Whether you are communicating your concept to investors, potential partners, or anyone else you need to be able to effectively communicate why your business is worthy of consideration. And that is especially true of that first group of people…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship's High Impact Practices
There are many ways to get an education but in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider Director Jackson discusses how our program uses intensive projects with real world implications to enrich our students’ education and increase graduation rates. CSUF Entrepreneurship students will tell you two things about their education at Cal State Fullerton: 1.…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Students Get Hands On Experience
One of the critical components of the CSUF Entrepreneurship program that we are very proud of is that our curriculum features many projects with real world implications. We have the CSUF Consulting program where students work in groups to help develop comprehensive strategy reports for existing businesses and startups. We also have a pair of…
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Innovation At Cal State Fullerton – It Starts With You
In this week’s edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider we focus on how innovation starts with you. Everyone has the ability to improve things and the seed of all innovation is an idea. Successful innovators are the ones who work every day to make those ideas into something real. Over the past few weeks the…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Students Create Business Plan, Present to Investor Panel
“The panel is awesome – I love that as students, we have the chance to present real ideas to real business owners, entrepreneurs, investors, and bankers. Few other classes offer the practical feedback and hands-on work that I have experienced in Management 465A. It is one of the best Entrepreneurship classes, and I highly recommend…