CSUF Entrepreneurial Matters

While the practice of Entrepreneurship is thousands of years old, the teaching of Entrepreneurship at the University level is relatively new. The science + art of Entrepreneurship is a fascinating area of study, but can students really be taught to be entrepreneurs, or are they just born with the skills or inclination? Academicians around the [...]

Listen to what others have to say about Entrepreneurship: “Entrepreneurs at small businesses provide approximately 75% of the net new jobs added to the economy.” – U.S. Small Business Association (SBA) “Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.” – Peter Drucker “Be nice to geeks, you’ll probably end up working [...]

The CSUF Entrepreneurship student consulting project for Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort was profiled on the CSU California State University website as example of CSU’s support of sustainability initiatives. The website reads “As the economy faltered, many companies had to pull back on expenditures. For some, this included putting sustainability in the back seat to other [...]

Be sure to check out the Grand Premiere of Inventing Profit, August 11, 5:30 to 7:30 PM at the Agua Hedionda Lagoon Discovery Center in Carlsbad, CA. Inventing Profit, a collaboration of industry professionals, announces the premiere on August 11, 2011 from 5:30pm – 7:30pm at the Agua Hedionda Discover Center, of the reality-based invention [...]

In an earlier post I mentioned how all of us could benefit by acting more like entrepreneurs. For the first (and probably last) time in my life, I have found myself ahead of a new trend. Yesterday, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman published an op-ed called “The Start-up of You” that contained the same [...]