Business

Three entrepreneurs Will Win Portion of $1,500 at LAVA’s Elevator Pitch Contest Sept. 11

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Image Courtesy/LAVA

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Three entrepreneurs who deliver the best 60-second speech at the Elevator Pitch Contest Thursday morning will share in $1,500 in total prize money. 

SIVI Corporation and Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Feynman Center for Innovation (FCI) and Community Programs Office (CPO) are sponsoring the event and providing the prize money. The contest is hosted by LACDC’s Los Alamos Venture Accelerator (LAVA) and part of Los Alamos ScienceFest.

The Elevator Pitch Contest is 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Fuller Lodge and open to anyone with a business or even Read More

Yang: Sometimes It Seems Easier To Donate ($ or goods) Than To Be Gracious

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Sometimes It Seems Easier To Donate ($ or goods) Than To Be Gracious
By ELENA YANG
Los Alamos

When I first ran across this article, “The Lesson of Grace in Teaching, I was moved by the story behind the title, but didn’t think it had direct bearing on business or management. 

Then, I remembered my own principle: Everything is connected in system perspective. Indeed, “grace” is useful in teaching, and there are many principles in the teaching profession from which management can learn. 

After Francis Edward Su’s award speech for teaching mathematics, he received so many requests for Read More

Entreprenurial Teen Grand Challenge Participants Wow Judges

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The Quality Mobile Small Engine Repair Team from Espanola took First Place in the Entreprenurial Teen Grand Challenge and received $400 to build their business. The event was held Monday at UNM-Los Alamos as part of Los Alamos ScienceFest 2014. Judges were impressed by the achievable goals outlined in their proposal. Seven teams from around northern New Mexico competed in the Challenge, presenting their business plan to a panel of six judges. Team members, from left, Alejandro Atencio, Joshua Lopez and lead mechanic Xena Martinez. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
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Financing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise Course in Crowd-Financing Begins Sept. 19

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Local entrepreneurs are invited to take a course on launching a startup and getting it funded at the Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation (in the Small Business Center, behind the Post Office).

Nicholas Seet, the founder of the Los Alamos Venture Accelerator (LAVA), will teach Financing the Entrepreneurial Enterprise noon to 4 p.m., each Friday beginning Sept. 19.

The class will be hands-on, project-based and cover entrepreneurship theory and best practices, building a team, identifying resources, and raising funds.

Seet is an expert at financing startups: Read More

Los Alamos Students Compete In Small Business Grand Championship Tonight

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By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN

Today, Los Alamos High School student Jonmichael Weaver and home school student Savannah Martinez will compete in a small business grand championship, as part of Los Alamos ScienceFest activities.

The Los Alamos Commerce and Development Corporation’s Summer Youth Business Grant program originally supported the entrepreneurs with business grants to begin their businesses back in May. At summer’s end, the students made presentations to a small committee in August, finishing in the top three spots and advancing to the next level of competition against Taos, Espanola Read More

Michelle Harkey Presents Talk At Los Alamos Rotary

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Los Alamos Rotarian and occasional Sergeant at Arms, Michelle Harkey, presented her classification talk at Tuesday’s Rotary meeting at the Manhattan Project Restaurant. Harkey owns Mullein Leaf Massage at 3500 Trinity, Suite A-5 where she offers Integrative Massage and Bioelectric Therapy and other modalities. Visit mulleinleafinstitute.com, for more information. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Ribbon Officially Cut on Los Alamos Medical Care Clinic

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At a Los Alamos Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting ceremony Friday, Los Alamos Medical Care Clinic owners Dr.James Ziomek and Dr. Richard Honsinger cut a ribbon that is wrapped around LAMCC’s newest physicians Dr. John Wisneski, Dr. Monica Snowden,  Dr. Elisa Lange and Dr. Stanley Garrett during an open house Friday, Sept. 5 at the clinic. Dr. Garrett joined LAMCC in January 2014 and is Board Certified in Family Practice. Dr. Lange joined the clinic in April 2014 and is Board Certified in Pediatric Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. Dr. Snowden joined LAMCC in June 2014 and is Board Certified Read More

Los Alamos Subway Interior Work Continues

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The contents of the Los Alamos Subway near 15th and Central was moved outside Saturday to make room for the finishing touches and a good floor scrubbing as the new eatery prepares to open to the public later this month. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Everything inside Subway was moved outside while the floor was cleaned Saturday and finishing touches are completed. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com Read More

Adamina Wellness Opens In Los Alamos

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Angela Love Storkan

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Adamina Wellness was originally opened in Raton more than two years ago. Owner Angela Love Storkan recently returned to Los Alamos and is now working as an independent contractor out of her father’s practice, Storkan Chiropractic at 2610 Trinity Dr., Suite 22. 

Storkan received her Associates Degree in Holistic Health from Trinidad State Junior College. During her time there, she had the opportunity to learn a variety of techniques she now incorporates into her practice. These techniques include Massage Therapy, Reflexology, Acupressure, Read More