Fresno State’s Lyles Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship and Fresno City College present the 2012 Central California Young Entrepreneurs Conference 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, at Fresno’s Radisson Hotel and Conference Center.
The event is free with advance registration by Friday, March 9, 2012.
The morning keynote speaker will be Dale Partridge, CEO and co-founder of Sevenly.org a social good company launched in June 2011. Mashable and Fast Company have named Sevenly.org one of the nation’s fastest-growing social good start-ups.
Partridge also is the author of “Make it Happen, 30 Steps Young Entrepreneurs Take to Start Great Companies”.
Students will attend breakout sessions with topics such as social media marketing, writing business plans and secrets of being an entrepreneur, each presented by young entrepreneurs from the central San Joaquin Valley.
The conference will conclude with lunch and a presentation from Nick Friedman, president and co-founder of College Hunks Hauling Junk. The business promotes itself as the largest and fastest growing U.S.-based junk removal and moving franchise.
Friedman will share his vision of where he wanted his company to be at five-year, 10-year and later benchmarks and also talk about becoming a millionaire before he was 25.
To register for the 2012 Central California Young Entrepreneurs Conference, visit www.ccyec.eventbrite.com.
For more information, contact Casey Lamonski, 559.347.3925 or CLamonski@csufresno.edu.
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