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CSUF Entrepreneurship Students Awarded More Than $100,000 in Scholarships and In-kind Awards during the 2018-19 Academic Year
Thanks to the generosity of the CSUF Entrepreneurship community, student-entrepreneurs received more than $100,000 in cash scholarships, in-kind sponsorships, and residencies at the CSUF Startup Incubator! Wow, that is amazing! To celebrate these students and the gracious donors, here is a list of all of the awards from the 2018-19 academic year: Conrey Insurance Brokers…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Teams Up With Engineering at Cal State Fullerton To Help Students Become Entrepreneurs
One of our goals at the Center for Entrepreneurship at Cal State Fullerton is to help make the Cal State Fullerton community more innovative and entrepreneurial. There are students, faculty, and staff throughout Cal State Fullerton that have amazing ideas that can have a real impact on the world but they don’t actively pursue those…
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How To Launch Your Startup Idea – CSUF Startup Incubator Seminar
The CSUF Startup Incubator welcomed in Alexis Bedoret in to host a seminar that focused on the number one job of an entrepreneur. Alexis spent the last 10 years building startups with expertise in Software, Hardware and the Internet of Things. With his co-founders, they created a Startup Studio to invest in startups. They learned…
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CSUF Startup Incubator Resident Inks Deal With Chamber of Commerce
The CSUF Startup Incubator is proud of the progress that John Barton, the founder of Point ‘N Save, has made since joining the Incubator last year. During that time, John has worked most closely with Dr. Deborah Ferber and focused on pivoting his business into what it is today: An app called Live Work Play…
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José Calero – CSUF Startup Event Recap
José Calero had a very successful sales career and the day after he retired he decided that he was going to start his own business. Almost two decades later he has a thriving business, called LapWorks, and he was gracious enough to sit down with Cal State Fullerton students at our most recent CSUF Startup…
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Eureka FEST CSUF Discount
Every year Eureka FEST is one of the biggest startup events on the West Coast and the CSUF Startup Incubator is proud to be a sponsor. For everyone in the CSUF Entrepreneurship community, if you use code “CSUF” at checkout you will get a discount. To purchase your ticket today go to EUREKAON.COM.And don’t forget…
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Sales Mindset for First-time Entrepreneurs – CSUF Startup Talk
A couple of weeks ago we were fortunate enough to have Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown, both sales professionals, investors, and professors, stop by the CSUF Startup Incubator office in Irvine to host a seminar on how to be better at sales. Here are some of my notes from that event that I hope are…
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How Entrepreneurs Can Defeat The Dreaded Trough Of Sorrow
Phillip Stinis, manager of the CSUF Startup Incubator, hosted a seminar last night with a couple of dozen attendees eager to learn how to go from concept to launch and how to beat that trough of sorrow. What is the “Trough of Sorrow”? The Trough of Sorrow is a concept that comes from Y Combinator…
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The Startup Hustle with Michael Sawitz
Earlier at the CSUF Startup Incubator in Irvine Michael Sawitz gave a powerful talk on what it actually means to hustle as an entrepreneur. In his talk, “The Art and Science of Customer Development”, Michael talked about how he has been able to acquire customers as a startup. Michael’s talk was wide-ranging and, while ostensibly…
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The Cold, Hard Facts about Startup Funding
Yesterday at the CSUF Startup Incubator (Irvine) we were honored to have David Ochi give a talk about startup funding. As you may know, or at least have suspicions about, funding a startup is, despite the successes seen on TV shows like Shark Tank, no easy task but after David’s talk yesterday it’s pretty obvious…