Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 8, Number 4, 1 April 1991 — Learn to start a business on Kauaʻi [ARTICLE]

Learn to start a business on Kauaʻi

The first Kaua'i Entrepreneurship Training Program co-sponsored by the Alu Like, Ine. Native Hawaiian Business Development Center, and the Small Business Development Center, Kaua'i, will run from May 10 through July 20. This 72-hour course will allow participants to leam about how to start a business, and prepare them to write a winning business plan. For applications, contact Kathleen Cook at 2458545. Interviews to select Hawaiian adult students will be held during mid April. Vonn Logan, a new member of the Alu Like Business Development Center, will be the instructor. He holds a Master of Business Administration degree in entrepreneurship, and has small business experience.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Alu Like, ine. Business Development Center will also be holding one day "Introduction to Business" classes at the following locations: July 27, Hana, Maui; Aug. 10, Kaunakakai, Moloka'i; Aug. 31, Lana'i City, Lana'i; and Sept. 7, Waimea, Hawai'i. Information on the one-day classes may be obtained through your loeal Alu Like island offices. New faces around the islands Jim Mo'ikeha, administrator for the Alu Like Business Development Center, announces that there is now more help for Hawaiian entrepreneurs at the Center. Management and Technical Assistance

Joining the management and technical assistance team as business development specialists for the islands of Kaua'i and Maui are Kathleen Cook, and Tyrone Manandic. Cook is a newcomer to Kaua'i and eager to share her more than 20 years of experience as a business and management consultant for the development of health care and social service organizations. Manandic brings 18 years of handson experience with McDonald's of Hawai'i in various supervisory positions and as an owneroperator. He opened the Kihei, Maui operations. Before joining Alu Like he was a private consultant for hotel and restaurant projects. Both Cook and Manandic ean be contacted at their respective Alu Like Island Center offices.

They join regulars Catherine Kahae and Paul Kobata who are business development specialists on the islands of Moioka'i and Hawai'i. The Management and Technical Assistance project is funded by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. Marketing Specialist Lori M. Moriwaki has been hired to conduct a special project for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The Business Development Center has been contracted by OHA to identify, design and publish a directory of Hawaiian-owned businesses; develop Hawaiian entrepreneurial associations and conduct entrepreneurship training workshops on the islands of Hawai'i, Maui, Moloka'i, Lana'i and Kaua'i. Moriwaki was management consultant with the

Honolulu Minority Business Development Center, a federally-funded program administered by Grant Thornton of Honolulu. Prior to that she was a marketing field representative for the Hawai'i Central Credit Union. Moriwaki ean be contacted at Alu Like's Honolulu Business Development Center. Business Service Center manager The Native Hawaiian Business Development Center received multi-year funding approval from the Administration for Native Americans beginning this year, to develop and operate a continued page 23

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/rom page 20 Business Service Center at competitive or low costs for its membership. The center will offer a variety of business office-related services: turnkey share office, secretarial services, computer, copier, facsimile, messages, mailing address and postage.

After an extensive period of interviews, John A. Moore was selected by Alu Like to develop the project and to manage the center. Moore brings valuable experience in business management and the securities industry to his new position and plans to open the center for business in July. Applications for membership will be announced at

a later date. Moore's office is at Alu Like's Honolulu Business Development Center. Entrepreneurship training specialist Vonn Logan is the new face in Alu Like's Native Hawaiian Entrepreneurship Training Program and joins Wailani Bell as a training specialist. He holds an MBA degree in Entrepreneurship from the University of Arizona, and has extensive hands-on experience in small business management and operations. Logan and Bell are currently instructing an entrepreneurship class at the Business Development Center in Honolulu.