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Entrepreneurs

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  • October 28, 2005
Runner-Up: Medical Education Technologies Inc.

We've all heard the adage practice makes perfect. But with new simulation technology, gone are the days of medical students practicing life or death procedures on real patients. Medical schools and health care organizations are now turning to Sarasota-based Medical Education Technologies Inc., which provides simulation technology that replicates a human being.

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  • October 28, 2005
Winner: MadahCom Inc.

How do you convince someone you can solve their problem if they don't believe the problem exists? In its early years, MadahCom Inc., a Sarasota-based provider of public warning systems for homeland security, was faced with this very challenge - trying to convince the public that there was a need for its product.

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  • October 28, 2005
ValuCar Crash

Automobile salesman Nelson J. Valdes Jr. wanted to go into business for himself. But he turned to a questionable source for startup capital: the Mafia.

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  • October 28, 2005
Fair Trade

St. Petersburg's real estate department finds early dividends in going the extra mile for displaced businesses and residents.

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  • October 28, 2005
Raised Expectations

New investment has fueled a mini-boom in the beleaguered commercial market at Tampa's Fowler and Nebraska avenues.

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  • October 28, 2005
Finalist: Vox2Data Inc.

Quite a bit has changed since Vox2Data was selected as the second-runner up in The Gulf Coast Business Review's 2004 Technology Innovation Awards. A new name. A new version of its flagship software. And now, some roof damage and flooding as a result of Hurricane Wilma.

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  • October 28, 2005
Finalist: Guardian Solutions

The mission of Guardian Solutions, a Bradenton-based developer of intelligent video surveillance software, is to make and sell equipment that monitors these facilities and fence lines.

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  • October 28, 2005
Finalist: One to One Gulfcoast

Many not-for-profits have an important message to deliver. Unfortunately, more times than not, direct mailings to prospects end up unopened in the bottom of the garbage can next to other generic mail labeled, "You may already be a winner" and "Don't throw this away." In fact, only .5% of all of direct mail generates response, according to Brian Weiner and Dana Place, founders of One to One Gulfcoast.

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  • October 28, 2005
Finalist: Med X Change Inc.

Advances in digital-recording technology over the past five years have changed the way health-care professionals do their jobs. It also changed how Craig Scherer ran his business. Four years ago, Scherer, president and CEO of Bradenton-based Med X Change Inc., developed an online web casting system that captured live video of customer-service departments working with hospitals.

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  • October 28, 2005
2005 Technology Innovation Awards Introduction

The Gulf Coast Business Review present our annual 2005 Technology and Innovation Awards. Read our introduction for free.

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  • October 20, 2005
South of the Border

Gulf Coast developers find success selling homes and land in new 'paradise.'

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  • October 20, 2005
International Intrigue

Wall of confidentiality cloaks identify of a private European trust that bought several high-profile office buildings in Tampa, Orlando and elsewhere.

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  • October 20, 2005
Bank Turn

A Wall Street analyst tells Tampa investment managers that the weakening regional banking sector won't bounce back for a while.

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  • October 20, 2005
'A Class Act'

Tampa trial lawyer Bennie Lazzara has amassed $150 million in jury verdicts since he switched to civil law in the mid-'90s. Expect more: he's not done.

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  • October 20, 2005
Sold on Florida

West Florida developer Al Hoffman Jr. shares his thoughts on Florida's real estate market as he prepares to become U.S. ambassador to Portugal.

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