Coworking venture looks to grow with startup lab, venture capital arm

What started as a coworking venture has shifted to more than space provisions.

Courtesy. Two 39 Group includes a venture capital arm and cowork space. Pictured here is Taylor Thompson, a Florida Gulf Coast University art and entrepreneurship student and Alex Allen.
Courtesy. Two 39 Group includes a venture capital arm and cowork space. Pictured here is Taylor Thompson, a Florida Gulf Coast University art and entrepreneurship student and Alex Allen.
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Southwest Florida entrepreneur Brian Samelson is proud of how he built a multimillion-dollar business — pioneering a Software-as-a-Service subscription model for maintenance management — by bootstrapping it. He started the company, eMaint, in Philadelphia in 1986 and sold it to a Fortune 500 company in 2016.

 

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