Business

Class Helps Beginning Business Owners Start Entrepreneurial Journey

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Nicholas Seet

By MANDY MARKSTEINER

Enrollment is now open for one of the most popular classes offered at UNM-Los Alamos, Introduction to Entrepreneurship (Course #BSTC 193-300.)

The class is noon-4 p.m. Fridays, Feb. 28 through May 9 in Building Six, Room 610 at UNM-Los Alamos.

Students will enter a business incubator where they will receive hands on training, practical assistance, be matched with a mentor, and experiment with crowdfunding and other ways of financing a business. The experience will culminate in a real business pitch.

Instructor Nicholas Seet is a successful entrepreneur Read More

Yang: Appearing Confident ≠ Being Competent

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Appearing Confident ≠ Being Competent
By ELENA YANG

Do we know, with high confidence, how to discern competence from confidence? I am sure we have encountered, or dare I say, even been fooled, by people who act confidently but who really are borderline nincompoops. If we were fooled, we usually keep quiet lest we appear incompetent ourselves.

Last week, my column focused on Amy Cuddy’s research that demonstrates the value of “faking it till making it.” She would argue, from her own experience and research, that there are plenty of people who are genuinely competent but doubt themselves and therefore Read More

Changes Underway at Los Alamos Daily Post!

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Mary Hrbek

Staff Report

Changes are afoot as 2014 gets underway and the Los Alamos Daily Post nears its two-year anniversary in business.

Mary Hrbek is joining the Los Alamos Daily Post news team as a copy editor. Her first full-time job after college was as an editorial assistant at the Chicago Tribune.

Hrbek majored in English at the University of Illinois and spent several years working as a freelance editor, proofreader and desktop publisher before her children were born. She moved to Los Alamos in 1998 with her husband George Hrbek and their sons Geordy and Bobby.

“I am delighted

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Leadership Los Alamos Session Examines Local Government

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Leadership Los Alamos panelists from left, DPU Charter Review Committee Chair Susan O’Leary, Utilities Board Chair David Powell and DPU Manager John Arrowsmith. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Leadership Los Alamos participants listen as DPU Charter Review Committee Chair Susan O’Leary presents details on her committee’s recommendations to County Council. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

 

By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

Session Co-Chairs Pat Casados (Magistrate Judge) and Chris Chandler (Probate Judge) led the Dec. 13 Leadership

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Learn, Cook and Eat in Co+op Cooking Class

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Chef Emily Schmidt shows off ingredients for her family-friendly, nutritious cooking class. Courtesy/LA Co+op Market

Co+op News:

The Los Alamos Co+op Market’s Shop with the Chef cooking classes give local chefs the opportunity to share their love of cuisine, starting with picking out the ingredients and taking participants through the process to enjoying the final product.

Three upcoming classes include:

  • Jan. 28 – Healthy One-Dish Meals by Emily Schmidt
  • Feb. 11 – Valentine’s Day Dinner Made Simply by Steve Watts
  • March 11 – The Key to French Cuisine by Edwin Theodore

The classes are 6 p.m. Read More

Regina Wheeler of Positive Energy Solar Talks About Energy Solutions

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Regina Wheeler of Positive Energy Solar talks about energy solutions during Tuesday’s Rotary Club. Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com

Staff Report

Chief Executive Officer Regina Wheeler of Positive Energy Solar spoke to the Rotary Club of Los Alamos Tuesday at the Dixie Girl Restaurant.

Founded in 1997, Positive Energy Solar is an award-winning company that provides comprehensive, high quality solar solutions for homes, institutions and businesses across New Mexico. Once people realize they can preserve their quality of life, even enhance it, while going green, they are Read More

Los Alamos CPAs Lorraine Hartway and Beth Breshears Launch New Partnership

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New partners Lorraine Hartway and Beth Breshears of Hartway & Breshears, CPAs, LLC gather with their staff  Tuesday in their new offices at 1350 Central Ave., Suite 301. From left, Valerie Idler, Trisha Barks, Yang (Jenny) Jin, William J. (Bill) Whitty, Lorraine Hartway, Shelia Barks, Beth Breshears, Lori Thompson, Verlene Stam and Diana Lincoln (not pictured: John Puckett.) Photo by Carol A. Clark/ladailypost.com
 
By CAROL A. CLARK
Los Alamos Daily Post

New year, new business, new location … Lorraine Hartway, CPA, LLC of Los Alamos just became Hartway & Breshears,

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Test Drive a Class at Karen Wray Fine Art Saturday

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Karen Wray in her new studio at 166 East Gate Dr. Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Karen Wray Fine Art has a new home at 166 East Gate Dr. in Los Alamos. Wray closed her Gallery on Central Avenue in October. “It was just not economically viable,” Wray said. “The number of art buyers in town is too small and tourism just isn’t off the ground yet.”

Student works on oil painting in Karen Wray art class. Courtesy/Karen Wray Fine Art

Wray decided to change direction and move away from the retail side to a space where she could offer her popular classes and have

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Yang: Adopting Power Posture To Feel Powerful, Yet Power Saps Empathy…

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Adopting Power Posture To Feel Powerful, Yet Power Saps Empathy…
By ELENA YANG

“Fake it till you make it.” Whether we like “faking” or not, whether we believe this sentiment or not, and whether we want to adopt such “principle” or not, according to Amy Cuddy’s research, a powerful body language can help us grow our confidence, while also changing others’ perceptions of us.

Amy Cuddy is a professor at the Harvard Business School. Both her personal journey and research interests have led her to study the relationships between our nonverbal language, performance, and confidence (link below).  As Read More

Financial Stability Continues to be Major Goal for Los Alamos County in 2014

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Local business leaders listen as Los Alamos County Administrator Harry Burgess presents his annual ‘State of the County’ address at the Chamber Business Breakfast today. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com
 
By BONNIE J. GORDON
Los Alamos Daily Post

Los Alamos County Administrator Harry Burgess presented his annual “State of the County” address at the first Chamber Business Breakfast of 2014, held today at UNM-Los Alamos.

Harry Burgess. Photo by Bonnie J. Gordon/ladailypost.com

Financial stability continues to be a major goal for Los Alamos County, Read More