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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • May 13, 2005
Struggle for Control

The estate of entrepreneur Paul 'Duke' Smith has spun out of control amid a bitter family dispute.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 31, 2003
Free Parking

All the talk about the city of Sarasota getting 300 public parking spaces at a bargain price at the Whole Foods development is just that - talk. Read the contract?

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • August 13, 2009
Survive and Thrive

Gulf Coast fast-food restaurant owner Jonathan Ith isn't about to back down from a minor roadblock like a recession. He spent most of his youth, after all, in a life-and-death survival mode while growing up in the killing fields of Cambodia.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • December 10, 2010
Medical Momentum

The medical billing industry is on the cusp of colossal shift. Susan Coles, who built a 25-employee firm from her bedroom in less than a decade, wants in on the action.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • August 19, 2011
Foreign Capital, Local Jobs

A Tampa-Sarasota partnership's investment model finances development projects backed by foreign investors. The payoff: an expedited path to citizenship, if enough jobs get created.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • June 7, 2012
All He Could Be

A high-ranking Army officer based on the Gulf Coast attacks leadership like an art — not a science.

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  • By Jay Brady |
  • April 15, 2011
Maze Buster

With 1 million unemployed, legislators aim to clear a path to jobs through the state's decades-old growth management maze by giving locals more autonomy. But environmental groups are stalling to have more time to review.

  • Florida
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  • By Alicia Ceccarelli |
  • February 3, 2017
Bright eyes

TerraSmart does solar work competitors can't — or won't — do. One key: Its internal policies foster and encourage innovation.

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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • March 11, 2016
Go-getter

A passion for startups drove Sheryl Hunter to launch a super-specialized law firm. Clients are rolling in.

  • Law
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  • By Denise Federer |
  • March 27, 2025
Good leaders need emotional management skills, not just technical know-how

The key to emotional management is to show, above all else, courage.

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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 30, 2025
Florida man sues state investigator after 11 felony charges dropped

The former roofing company salesman blames a "faulty investigation" and "fabricated facts" for upending his life.

  • Florida
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  • By Brian Murphy |
  • December 2, 2022
How to take your company from startup to unicorn

Cybersecurity entrepreneur Brian Murphy built a company from nothing to a valuation of more than $1 billion. His road there had "no pause button."

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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • September 23, 2022
With merger, long-independent bank welcomes fintech shift

First National Bank of Pasco, looking to avoid irrelevancy, has embraced banking technology with an unusual vigor.

  • Finance
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • January 12, 2007
Vanilla Investing, Sweet Returns

James Pappas' long-term strategy sometimes even pays off for him and his clients in the short-term.

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  • March 9, 2007
Lou Lasday:Your Greatest Asset is Walking Out the Door

Employees are your secret weapon in today's economy.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • May 11, 2007
Matt Walsh: Invoke the Lemon Law: Take back Crist

Crist has it wrong. The insurance industry is not the enemy. The enemy is the state. How could it be any more obvious? When the state's largest property insurer is the state itself, there is nothing more that needs to be said. The "market" didn't create Florida's insurance-pricing troubles; the state did.

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  • By Adam Hughes |
  • January 21, 2005
Backing a Bull

The chairman of financial giant Legg Mason Wood Walker Inc. talks equities and the economy.

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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • December 31, 2010
The Distance

JEFFREY HENN - Age: 42 - Title: Neurosurgeon - Company: Lee Neurosurgery, Fort Myers

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  • By Carl Cronan |
  • August 13, 2010
GULF COAST 500: Small Cargo

Trinity's FreightCenter has found a way to help people, even one-time users, find the best pricing available on shipments that are too heavy for parcel drivers, but not enough for their own big rig.

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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • April 19, 2013
Family crowd

The Wynn family of Naples is preparing to pass on the grocery and hardware businesses to the third generation, which now consists of 17 people. They plan to do it in an orderly way.

  • Strategies
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