Glastonbury resident Marien Zanyk walked on stage at a UConn auditorium in Farmington this month and looked out at an audience of more than 60 investors, bankers, attorneys and other supporters of the state's entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Kurt Barwis was an aspiring artist who loved to paint, draw and sculpt in high school, but interning as a messenger for a law firm active in entertainment exposed him to other possibilities. He met noted musicians, ran errands in a law partner's Porsche and saw a different side of life.
On the office wall of Frank Valente Jr.'s Laurel Street office is a framed original blueprint, circa 1860, of an insurance company's fire sprinkler system. Near that artifact is a framed original front page of The Connecticut Courant (later to be known as The Hartford Courant) from Sept. 24, 1798.
The sight of construction and work crews along Pratt Street in downtown Hartford since April has been frustrating for merchants, landlords, motorists and pedestrians.
The talent pipeline for science, technology and advanced manufacturing jobs in the United States needs an enormous boost of interested kids — and fast.
No matter their strengths, businesses, like people, are always at risk. Some dangers are so blatant they dare being ignored. But others, far less obvious, cause untold — and even fatal — damage, eating away and undermining a company's best efforts. Their work is insidious and relentless, going unnoticed until it's too late. And it all happens without anyone breaking a sweat.
When Jonas Rasmussen, a native of Denmark, arrived at the University of Hartford in 2015 to pursue a master's degree in business administration, it was in many ways the fulfillment of a dream.
Architectural photographer Heather Conley calls the people at the University of Hartford's Entrepreneurial Center a trusted team in her village of advisers, mentors and supporters.