CSUF Conrey Center for Entrepreneurship

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  • 2015 CSUF Entrepreneurship Scholarships Announced

    Every spring semester we are proud to offer at least one scholarship to our Entrepreneurship students. This semester we have two scholarships. Key info for each scholarship is below followed by instructions on how to submit a scholarship application. Conrey Insurance Brokers and Risk Managers Entrepreneurial Scholarship sponsored by Jerry Conrey Amount: $3,000 Established by:…

  • Event Highlights: Successful Women and how they Think about Business Differently

    The other day we posted the full audio of our recent panel titled: “Successful Women and how they Think about Business Differently.” It’s a great listen and while we do recommend listening to the whole panel discussion we now also have video highlights from the event. Enjoy!

  • Event: Think Globally, Act Locally

    The Department of Marketing and the Centers for Entrepreneurship and International Business would like to invite all of you to the “Think Globally, Act Locally: Building Local Roots for America’s Small Business” event. At this event you will get the opportunity to hear from Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson and and Center for…

  • Successful Women and how they Think about Business Differently

    A couple of weeks ago we were delighted to co-host a panel discussion with Richard Franzi’s Critical Mass for Business. As part of their Speaker Series, present was a panel of distinguished business women (and Director John Bradley Jackson) to discuss the topic of “Successful Women and how they Think about Business Differently”. The panel…

  • CSUF Alumni Awarded Presidential Volunteer Service Award

    Cal State Fullerton alumni Raquel Lizarraga ’10 and Henry Reyes ’10 recently won the Presidential Volunteer Service Award for the work that their nonprofit, International Surf Lifesaving Association, has done to help prevent people from drowning. Here’s more of the story about ISLA:

  • Entrepreneurship Lessons from Pirate Joe's

    Trader Joe’s has a large and loyal following. (I’m one of them.) But they only have stores in the United States. Michael Hallatt lived in Vancouver, Canada, and got tired of having to cross the border to get his favorite grocery products. Thinking like an entrepreneur, he decided to start buying products from Trader Joe’s…

  • CSUF Entrepreneurship alumna opens business in Australia

    After many months of traveling, I found myself in Cairns, Australia. To find a way of truly embracing this place and meeting as many people as possible, I tapped into my entrepreneurial spirit and started a coffee stand at a local farmers market. Rusty’s Farmers Market is centrally located in the heart of Cairns City.…

  • CSUF Entrepreneur Society Halloween Sale

    The Entrepreneur Society will be hosting a Halloween Sale (mini pumpkins, cupcakes and sessions in a photobooth are for sale) on Monday, October 27 from 8:00am to 4:30pm.

  • 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…

  • Center for Entrepreneurship Awards Event 2013

    More than 120 students, professors, mentors, board members, clients, staff and others connected to the CSUF Entrepreneurship Program attended an event to celebrate the end of the 11th year for the Center for Entrepreneurship. This event took place at the amazing Ember Café in Anaheim (the space was graciously donated to us by the Taormina…