CSUF Entrepreneurial Matters

Dr. Michael Ames is a Professor Emeritus at CSUF, Chairman of the Board for the Center for Entrepreneurship and aids many different organizations, both inside and outside the university, in advancing our free enterprise system. We have been fortunate enough to have him create a series of blog posts about the Guiding Principles for Mihaylo [...]

The birth rate in the United States is at the lowest ever recorded, according to new data released in November by the Pew Research Center.  This has important and long-term implications – political, social, and economic.  It also affects how marketers will try to sell their products and services. The yearly number of births per [...]

Tapping Success “I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.” Booker T. Washington As a child, my father told me inspirational stories of my grandfather – an immigrant [...]

CSUF Entrepreneurship is looking for a few more consulting clients for the Fall for our Strategy and Leadership classes. A typical team of 5-6 students puts in over 300 hours on the custom project. Space is limited and the semester kicks off in a few weeks. Please contact Charlesetta Medina, Field Case Coordinator for the [...]

Check out this Forbes article that begs the question: Why do B-Schools Set Up Entrepreneurs To Fail? Or, do they really? Read this article. Then we can argue a bit. The article’s author is putting all business schools in the same pot, which kind of gets me all stewed up —- pun intended. Harvard B-School [...]

It is very common today for products and services to be reviewed by customers on the web.  In fact, many people won’t think of buying an offering until they have researched it on the web and read the available user reviews. Resellers of consumer goods, such as Best Buy, have endorsed this concept in an [...]