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Ruthless Self Promotion @ CSUF Startup Incubator
Rudy Chavarria Jr. has a long and successful career as a music and media promoter so he knows a thing or two about how to get your message noticed. If you are thinking that your product is so good that people will just “find it” or that your service is so amazing that word of…
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CSUF Startup Mixer [PICTURES]
Bringing people together can be an extremely positive thing and that was definitely the case for the CSUF Startup Incubator Mixer we had this previous Saturday. Almost all of our Residents were in attendance and they had the chance to network with mentors, students, other entrepreneurs, and other people from our community. It was an…
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Pivots with Jim Cooper @ CSUF Startup Incubator
Earlier this month, the CSUF Startup Incubator was proud to welcome Jim Cooper to the CSUF Startup Incubator to talk about Pivots. What is a pivot? When should you make a pivot? How do you pivot? So on and so forth. Jim gave a very informative talk and here are some of the notes that…
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CSUF Startup Incubator Mixer
This Saturday we are hosting a mixer for CSUF students, alumni, community members, and Residents from the CSUF Startup Incubator. We are hoping that this event will catalyze entrepreneurial efforts and that maybe some of our Residents, who are diligently working on their startups, can add some talent to their teams.
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Financing the Startup – CSUF Startup Incubator Event
Whenever we host an event at the CSUF Startup Incubator our goal is to educate all in attendance. After working with entrepreneurs for years I can safely say that the area of raising investment capital is one of those areas that entrepreneurs need the most education on. Many of the entrepreneurs I have talked with…
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CSUF Startup Incubator Presentations
We just finished another exciting round of investor pitch walkthroughs today with three of our CSUF Startup Incubator‘s residents. Each of these residents have been incubating here for about half a year now and they have made some amazing progress. Each of these presentations followed the basic investor pitch formulation: 15 minutes presentation, 15 minutes…
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Phillip Stinis – CSUF Startup Incubator Entrepreneur in Residence
In January 2015, California State University Fullerton (CSUF) opened the CSUF Startup Incubator in Placentia. As the Entrepreneur in Residence, I have the pleasure of working with our startups firsthand while growing the Incubator as a startup itself. For those who haven’t heard yet, the CSUF Startup Incubator is looking to take highly scalable, early…
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Insurance at a Startup with Jerry Conrey
We haven’t written nearly enough about all of the great things that are happening at the CSUF Startup Incubator. Every week we have a different speaker in to talk about their area of expertise, our residents are there launching their businesses, students are coming together to be innovative, and our alumni entrepreneurs have monthly meetings…