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CSUF Entrepreneurship

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  • CSUF Entrepreneurship Update from Director Jackson

    Here are a few hundred words from Director John Bradley Jackson: Jerry Conrey is a tremendous supporter of the CSUF Entrepreneurship program and he will be joining us this Wednesday at 6pm for his talk/Q&A titled Insurance and Risk Management Questions Answered! This is a tremendous opportunity to find out what kinds of insurance your…

  • 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…

  • CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor Bob Kreisberg Rediscovers his love for the Saxophone

    As a mentor in our program, Bob Kreisberg has helped hundreds of students understand the importance of how different personalities affect entrepreneurial ventures. As the founder of Opus Productivity, Bob counsels companies on how to hire people with the highest likelihood of fitting in with a company’s culture and how to get the most out…

  • Success Story – Rance's Chicago Pizza

    CSUF alumni Aaron Tofani ’06 was gracious enough to write the following post about how he and his business partner, Rance Ruiz, embraced their entrepreneurial spirits and opened one of the most successful pizza restaurants in Southern California, Rance’s Chicago Pizza. Owning a business with one of my best friends is a truly rewarding experience.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • CSUF Business Consulting – THRA Client Testimonial

    After leaving careers in the US Navy and aerospace industry and closing an aerospace engineering business that I was plank owner of (that’s Navy talk for one of the founding members, more or less) after twelve years of operation, I was left with a legacy spinoff called The Horse Race Advantage. How did this happen?…

  • CSUF Entrepreneurship Success Story: Patrick Hayes '14

    CSUF Entrepreneurship Success Story: Patrick Hayes '14

    (Excerpted from the Mihaylo College Blog) Patrick Hayes ’14 began building his own furniture when he first moved out of his parent’s home at age 20. An aspiring artist, he did not have the money or resources to buy furniture, so he built functional, yet crude, desks and tables. He spent the first few years…

  • CSUF Entrepreneurship Mentor: Jerry Conrey

    Jerry Conrey has been an integral part of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Program since 2002 when he first became a mentor. Jerry still serves as a mentor to our student-entrepreneurs and he also has funded the Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship for many years, participated as a panelist at a seminar on Patent…