Start Your Start-Ups: Long Beach State University’s Entrepreneur Boot Camp Lets Participants Pitch Business Ideas

WHAT: Beach Entrepreneur Boot Camp, a free Long Beach State Universityprogram designed to teach participants such lessons as how to craft a business plan, conduct marketing work and organize a start-up as a legal company, is scheduled to conclude with participants pitching their businesses to a panel of judges.

WHEN:6 p.m.Tuesday, Aug. 14

WHERE:Lecture Hall 140, College of Business AdministrationLong Beach State University1250 Bellflower Blvd. 90840View map here.

WHY:The College of Business Administration, CSULB Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship and City of Long Beach Economic Development Department sponsor the Boot Camp for the benefit of local business owners and people who are interested in the prospect of going into business for themselves.

NOTES:

Instructor Bruce Sparks and Boot Camp participants will be available for interviews.

Beach Entrepreneur Boot Camp also receives support from two private companies, Star Vizn and Partneur.Attending media may call ahead for parking passes.

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About the campus:Long Beach State University is a teaching-intensive, research-driven university committed to providing highly valued undergraduate and graduate degrees critical for success in the globally minded 21st century. Annually ranked among the best universities in the West and among the best values in the entire nation, the university’s eight colleges serve more than 37,500 students. The campus values and is recognized for rich educational opportunities provided by excellent faculty and staff, exceptional degree programs, diversity of its student body, fiduciary and administrative responsibility and the positive contributions faculty, staff, students and more than 300,000 alumni make on society.