Entrepreneur Runner-Up: Jim Abrams

  • By Adam Hughes
  • | 6:00 p.m. May 20, 2005
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Entrepreneur Runner-Up: Jim Abrams

Founder and CEO of VenVest Inc.

For all the teenage-level customer service, greasy food and watery soda, fast-food chains like McDonald's are doing a lot right. Jim Abrams says the idea of consistency is a business rule strongly missing from the home service industries, so the longtime executive created Sarasota-based VenVest Inc.

 

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