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Mark Dickson's business is predictive analytics, but even he would have had a hard time forecasting how fast his startup would grow.

He launched the company, Sarasota-based offrs.com, from the garage in his east Manatee County home in January 2015. Its core product: an information-is-king kind of
software that real estate brokers use to pinpoint which homes in a specific territory will be listed for sale — before they hit the market. The offrs.com algorithm looks at
dozens of variables that can impact home listings, from loan-to-value ratios to a pending divorce to the age of the youngest child in the home. The company charges a
monthly fee for the software.

Not yet two years later, offrs.com