Concept to Launch to Growth
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”? Credit: Phil Graham and Andrew Chen (link) The Trough of Sorrow is …
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Eurekafest is a veritable Startup Convention (Startupcon would be a cool name) and this year’s event is coming up. On April 6, join the entrepreneurship community for “music, parties, pitches, and innovative content from speakers you won’t want to miss. Come hear from our distinguished lineup of speakers, network with industry influencers, hear new companies …
It’s always great to hear one of our entrepreneurs from the CSUF Startup Incubator talking with a great business leader such as Richard Franzi, who, among many other things, is the host of the Critical Mass Radio Show. Nick Panhwar, the gentleman on the right-hand side of the picture seen above, and his wife Ayisha, …
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Next Wednesday the CSUF Startup Incubator is proud to welcome Robert Freeman, the titular lawyer turned entrepreneur, in to discuss the strategies he has successfully used over his career as a lawyer and entrepreneur with two successful businesses under his belt. As a lawyer, Robert is able to look onto entrepreneurship from a different perspective …
Recently, CSUF Startup Incubator Resident eStockTIME was featured in the OC Business Journal. The subtitle of the article is “One Recent Startup Led By Four 70-Somethings” so you would be forgiven if you didn’t think this was a tech-related startup, but that is not the case. The founders of eStockTIME are working on an app …
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Starting a business is no easy task, even for a former investment banker like Ben Yip. About a year ago, Ben came to the CSUF Startup Incubator looking for help with the launch of his philanthropic app called Aidtree. Aidtree is a philanthropic coupon retailer that enables people to purchase discounts at the establishments that …
During Stephen LaCount’s talk titled Intellectual Property and the Entrepreneur at the CSUF Irvine campus Stephen went over a lot of interesting topics; topics that are immediately valuable to the entrepreneurs that were there. One of the parts of his talk that I liked in particular was his information on trade secret protection. Here are …
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This Wednesday at 6pm at the CSUF Irvine campus we are thrilled to have lawyer and professor Stephen LaCount come in to give a talk titled Intellectual Property and the Entrepreneur. I am sure that this will be a fascinating event with a lot of great information that entrepreneurs can use to bolster their …
One of the most important things every entrepreneur has to do is build a brand because that determines your startup’s identity. A big part of your brand is the visuals that you use. Visuals need to be consistent and be evocative of the kind of image that you are trying to cultivate. Give careful care …
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John Connors has an immense amount of experience working with startups and in this talk at the CSUF Startup Incubator on Wednesday, March 8 at 6pm, he will go into depth about his experiences with two startups in particular. One startup failed after three years and more than $30 million in loans from venture capitalists …
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