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Strategies

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  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
Stability Steps

Eryk Hardwick, a Naples-based remodeling contractor, was working for an elderly client who complained about being unable to use his walker to get onto the beach.

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  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
Sandy Sail

John Jenkins was at the dog beach on Fort Myers Beach one day when he saw a man set up a blanket on a pole for shade. That's when he dreamed up Sandy Sail, a sunshade that doesn't blow away like umbrellas do when the wind picks up.

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  • Mark Gordon
  • November 1, 2013
CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder

The firm's main products are the CorTemp Ingestible Body Temperature Sensor and the CorTemp Data Recorder. The sensor is a pill that transmits a body temperature while it travels through the digestive track.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 1, 2013
KeriCure

Keriann Greenhalgh was researching healing chronic wounds for her Ph.D. in organic chemistry when she discovered something much more practical for the everyday user: an elastic polymer technology that resembled a second skin.

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  • Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 1, 2013
Teburu

When St. Pete's Gondolier Pizza approached Leon McIntosh and Greg Ross-Munro's software engineering company to create an online ordering system, the pair quickly recognized an opportunity.

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    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
AquaRamp

A group of engineering and business students at Florida Gulf Coast University undertook a project in fall 2012 to help Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida design a pool ramp for disabled people at their nature camp. The result: AquaRamp.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • November 1, 2013
IntelligentM wristband

The IntelligentM wristband, which monitors doctors' hand hygiene, is based on staggering medical statistics.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
A class app

Got 10 minutes to spare? MassiveU's learning applications for mobile devices are for busy adults and young, tech-savvy students.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
Pegged together

Frank Schooley created a shelter you can assemble with just a hammer and pegs. It could help solve the global housing crisis as population swells and provide shelters in disaster or war zones.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Traci McMillan Beach
  • November 1, 2013
Gambling gamers

Former Raymond James IT wiz Landon Bass says he knows nothing about video games. That didn't stop him from joining a company to build an online fantasy league for gamers.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • November 1, 2013
Sweet Symphony

A pair of executives bring their history of business success to an IT services firm. Their goal is to help clients do it all.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Jean Gruss
  • November 1, 2013
Feed the map

Geofeedia maps social media posts so journalists, emergency officials and companies can track what's being said.

  • Strategies
    By
  • Mark Gordon
  • November 1, 2013
Curtains Up

Former food service executive Carl Cannova, who once oversaw 750 employees, didn't want to whittle away retirement on the golf course. So now he's back in business. The stakes, again, are tense.

  • Strategies
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  • James R.
  • October 25, 2013
Create a brand-driven culture

Six ways to get your employees to 'live the brand.'

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    By
  • Business Observer Staff
  • October 25, 2013
Corporate Report: Oct. 25

A roundup of the top corporate news of the week.

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