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Business as a Machine
Marc Pakbaz is an interesting guy and I like him. I’m going to miss a big portion of his history here but, in short, he is from Iran, lived in France (where he built and sold a business), and now lives in America (where he built and sold a business). He’s a teacher, consultant, serial…
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How to Sell your Startup to a Public Company
There is a great deal of difference between a private company and a public one. One big difference is the kind of regulatory regime a private company has to comply with is much less stringent and much less expensive than the one that public companies have to comply with after Sarbanes-Oxley. So, what does this…
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Big Things are Happening this fall for CSUF Entrepreneurship
In this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider we make a big announcement! Make sure to sign up to be a CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider to make sure that you can be an active member of this growing entrepreneurial community. For Cal State Fullerton’s entrepreneurship students the semester is already well underway. Many of them will…
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Common Versus Preferred Stocks Crash Course for Entrepreneurs
What every entrepreneur needs to know about the different kinds of stock classes before they take on investors. Find out how common and preferred stock differ. This talk was given by given by Peter DeAngelis at the CSUF Startup Incubator. #CSUF For more details on CSUF Entrepreneurship: http://business.fullerton.edu/Center/Entrepreneurship/ For more details on how we help…
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Entrepreneurial Events hosted by CSUF Entrepreneurship
Events are a great way to learn and network with other people and CSUF Entrepreneurship will be hosting quite a few events in the coming months, as you will find out in this edition of the CSUF Entrepreneurship Insider. In order to be a good entrepreneur you have to always be learning new things. Our…
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Types of Intellectual Property that Entrepreneurs Should Know
Justin Sanders, the VP for High Tech and Mechanical Devices at Entralta, gave a very insightful presentation on intellectual property last night for the Center for Entrepreneurship and CSUF Startup Incubator at the CSUF Irvine campus. He covered a lot in his hour long seminar so I’m simply going to give you an overview of…
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How to Profit from your Intellectual Property @ CSUF Startup Incubator
This Wednesday at 6pm at the Cal State Fullerton campus in Irvine we will be hosting a talk by Justin Sanders titled How to Profit from your Intellectual Property. In order to register, please go to the Eventbrite page. Intellectual property is becoming increasingly important when it comes to business valuation as well as success…
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Startup Funding Option: Family and Friends
I am sitting here watching a great presentation by startup expert Jim Cooper, co-founder of Braid Theory, and he is talking about funding. It’s a complicated subject, or at least it can get that way, but I think one of the main complications is that people make it more complicated than it needs to be.…
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Event Reminder: How to Fund your Startup
Just a friendly reminder that we will be hosting an event with startup expert Jim Cooper tomorrow evening at 6pm where he will discuss some of the innovative funding sources that most entrepreneurs know nothing about. Make sure to register by clicking this link. Here is some information about the event: As an entrepreneur, there…
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The Patent Process
On July 12, the CSUF Startup Incubator had a guest speaker to discuss the topic of patents. Austin Bonderer, a patent lawyer, visited the Incubator in order to present potential patent landmines that small businesses and startups should be aware of. He specifically addressed an answer to the question “What happens after you have your…