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Entrepreneurs

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  • October 30, 2008
Search and Deploy

Frank Ferreri has returned to the search firm business, this timewith his own company that finds financial and IT professionals.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Brave Change

The real estate sales business model has changed littleover the years, maintaining an all-out focus on commissions.A Gulf Coast entrepreneur is out for change.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
From the Trenches

There are pundits, ivory tower profs and media purveyors of doom, then there are those entrepreneurs and businessmen in the trenches of everyday business warfare. Here is their boots-on-the-ground outlook.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Organic growth

The biggest challenge for Mindshare Technology has been taking on only as much business as it can handle by offering custom software for companies.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Time to Buy - Apartments

A Tampa couple sees a solid future in apartmentsand has bought three complexes in three months.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Fall Forward

For-profit companies aren't the only entities that look to autumn as the economic forecasting season. Nonprofits on the Gulf coast are peering into the next year, too.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
'09 Economic Forecast

The financial crisis added another challenge to business owners trying to guess what 2009 will bring. Everyone agrees the economy won't come roaring back.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
The Outplacer

Daniel Farrar says Gulf Coast business owners are too negative. Anyplace in Florida looks better when you move from the Midwest.

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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
A Business Haven

An entrepreneur new to the wonders of Longboat Key wantsto see the island grow into a business hub. It's a big challenge.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Encore Performance

Jerry Campbell founded one of Michigan's largest banks before selling it. He has started HomeBanc on the Gulf Coast with statewide visions

  • Entrepreneurs
    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Back in Black

Chocolatier Norman Love kept a lid on expansionduring the boom years, preferring to spend his energies creating new products instead. It's paying off today.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
Still Fighting

Two surveys show that small business owners,both in the Gulf Coast and nationwide, are bulking up on one intangible asset for 2009: Hope.

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 23, 2008
By The Numbers

By The Numbers

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    By
  • Observer Staff
  • October 16, 2008
Tapping Technology

Scott Riley has successfully focused Fintech.com on one activity: Helping clients pay liquor vendors electronically.

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  • October 16, 2008
Health Navigators

Delphi, a St. Petersburg company, helps employers and their staffs get the best value in health care coverage.

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