Who says you can't come home again?

Tech entrepreneur comes back to Tampa to rebuild company he found two decades ago, and to spur the next generation of local innovators.

MARK WEMPLE: Byron Crowell, 51, came back to Tampa to re-launch Solution Publishing
MARK WEMPLE: Byron Crowell, 51, came back to Tampa to re-launch Solution Publishing
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Back in the late 1980s and 1990s there was a common feeling among young people in Tampa Bay that if you wanted to make it in the world you have to leave.

 

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