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Meet The Three Finalists for the CSUF Business Plan Competition
The CSUF Business Plan Competition Finals are coming next week! [Register now!] It promises to be an interesting look into what our student-entrepreneurs are capable of. Starting at noon on Thursday, 4/7 in Pavilion A of the Titan Student Union we open up registration and host an Innovation Fair where we will showcase the projects…
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No-Tipping Restaurant Model
A while back, CSUF professor Dr. Atul Teckchandani wrote a piece titled The not-so-surprising failure of no-tipping restaurants and it brought up many points that I thought were pretty interesting. The main thesis of Dr. Teckchandani’s piece was that while there is some data suggesting that restaurants that switch to a no-tipping model experience increases…
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CSUF Startup Incubator Resident KIDnetic Energy Labs will bring STEM/STEAM Education to Students
You have heard of STEM, right? Maybe even STEAM? If you think these are acronyms for something science- or technology-related then you’re on the right track. STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math and the A in STEAM stands for Art (the other letters have the same meanings in STEAM as they do in…
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Entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talks to CSUF Entrepreneurship Students
Recently, we were lucky enough to have serial entrepreneur Myles Kovacs talk to one of Director Jackson’s classes. Mr. Kovacs talked on many different facets of what he sees as crucial components of his success as an entrepreneur and what follows are the top 10 notes taken from Mr. Kovacs’ talk by CSUF Entrepreneur student…
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8 Hour Business Challenge
One of our Entrepreneurship clubs on campus is hosting a startup competition called the 8 Hour Business Challenge and we hope you can make it! http://www.meetup.com/SUM-Young-Entrepreneurs/events/228762356/ More details from Sigma Upsilon Mu:
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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…
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How to start a Business course for non-Business Majors at Cal State Fullerton
We love teaching entrepreneurship students the finer points of how to start a business, lean startups, MVPs, and the like so it is great that we also have a class to teach non-business majors the finer points of entrepreneurship now. Titled Business Administration 410: Starting and Managing a Small Business/Private Practice, this class is designed…
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How to Pitch your Business Idea in a Minute
The Titan Fast Pitch competition is on November 7 (Register now for a chance to win a scholarship) and I’m getting some questions on how to make an excellent pitch. To be sure, it’s a tough question and there is some creative license that goes into making a convincing pitch so no answer I give…
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Titan Fast Pitch – Intro Video
Thanks to current CSUF student Willie Holmes we have an introductory video for the Titan Fast Pitch Competition! Before we get to the video, however, I want to make sure that you are either competing in or attending the Titan Fast Pitch competition. If you haven’t done so already, go to http://csuffastpitch.com/ to register as…
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CSUF Entrepreneurship Teaches Kids STEM and Lean Startup
With funding from the National Science Foundation, Center for Entrepreneurship Director John Bradley Jackson, CSUF Entrepreneurship students Amerika Bernal and Monica Mercado, along with other contributors from the CSUF community have been teaching seventh- and eighth-grade students STEM and entrepreneurial lessons. These students recently completed their year long program where they learned the technical and…