Top Entrepreneurs: A life's passion doesn't come without sacrifices

Being an entrepreneur, to these rockstars, is a calling like no other.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 11:15 a.m. May 23, 2019
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Amy Martinez-Monfort started the Tampa Laundry Co. in South Tampa in 2015.
Amy Martinez-Monfort started the Tampa Laundry Co. in South Tampa in 2015.
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One was an U.S. Army helicopter pilot. Another spliced cables. Another? High school history teacher and juvenile probation counselor.

Those three people, at some point in their lives, decided to give up a steady paycheck to become an entrepreneur.

 

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