Better spread

Sometimes great ideas happen with chance meetings.

Betsy Opyt, a Naples dietician and personal trainer, always enjoyed sharing some of her homemade nut butters with customers like Ron Nordmann, a retired hedge fund manager with a long career on Wall Street. They met while she was coaching one of Nordmann's neighbors in a Naples condo.

Nordmann says he was immediately impressed by Opyt's product. “I think there's a business here,” he told her in 2012.