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Fine Focus

A famous product pitchman and a business coach join forces on a new, and ambitious, concept: help entrepreneurs be better entrepreneurs.

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Angelo Biasi runs an education company by day. At night, he tells a different story.

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Tom and Debbie Shapiro see the difference Boys & Girls Clubs of Sarasota County makes in children's lives. That's why they continue to support the organization.

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An entertainment executive shifts to home health care. Clients are totally different, but one principle remains the same.

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Randy Turkovics is in the luxury homebuilding spotlight, with a leadership role at one of the region's biggest builders. His timing could be near perfect.

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A couple of close calls helped John Chigos find his calling to develop a license plate tracking tool. After spending millions on development, Chigos is seeing a payoff in contracts with law enforcement, college campuses and government agencies.

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Signs of a commercial real estate recovery are sprinkled throughout the Gulf Coast. But the memory of the downturn lingers.

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The brother-sister dynamic is on full display at a Gulf Coast family-run moving business. The siblings have navigated the pitfalls well, so far.

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An insurance executive ditched the slacks and button-down for a day in Spain with the world-famous bulls. It was the rush of a lifetime.

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