Event horizon: Faced with failure, entrepreneurs tackle a new frontier

When an event management company’s main revenue stream dried up, it reinvented itself. The payoff has been celebratory.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. November 23, 2018
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Mark Wemple. Frank and Laurie Powell and their Tampa-based business, EventPower, have weathered a storm of federal budget cuts.
Mark Wemple. Frank and Laurie Powell and their Tampa-based business, EventPower, have weathered a storm of federal budget cuts.
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EventPower Inc. founder Frank Powell got his start in the event planning and management industry during his college days, when he helped produce concerts.

Then he discovered the lucrative world of government event planning and began making big bucks. He produced as many as 30 conferences per year, primarily for groups associated with the U.S. military.

 

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