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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • February 10, 2012
Better Ventures

The venture-capital business is thawing from the recession's freeze as investors find opportunities to buy and sell stakes in promising Florida companies.

  • Strategies
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • March 12, 2021
Area venture aims to bring sparkling CBD water to consumers

Plans for Aquarian Sky include focusing on a few states at first, but ambitions run high and include full-scale, national distribution.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Grier Ferguson |
  • December 16, 2020
Entrepreneurial couple starts, grows food business amid pandemic

With years of industry experience to guide them, a think-big couple aims to grab a large bite of the food products industry.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • January 22, 2021
A Nod to Vets

Blue Waters Development Group’s planned Victory Park in Cape Coral hopes to connect with area’s military infrastructure.

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Traci McMillan Beach |
  • February 5, 2021
Advice: executives need to exude empathy in new workplace.

Adjusting to the new state of work requires executives to be empathic and also emphatic with employees: Yes, things are changing but change can be good — for both sides.

  • Advice
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  • By Kevin McQuaid |
  • May 8, 2020
Landmark Reports teams with Georgia firm

Smart Real Estate Data plans to expand Landmark Reports' real estate research brand with new services, territory

  • Commercial Real Estate
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  • By Brian Hartz |
  • November 23, 2018
Event horizon: Faced with failure, entrepreneurs tackle a new frontier

EventPower Inc. founder Frank Powell was forced to reinvent his Tampa-based business when government budget cuts destroyed his revenue stream.

  • Strategies
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  • By Beth Luberecki |
  • August 10, 2018
Software firm finds success in a super-early entry to a hot market

Some 30,000 customers in 140 countries use Market Technologies software to inform their investment and business decisions. The firm posted $7.56 million in revenue in 2016, $7.76 million in 2017, and is on track to hit $8 million for 2018.

  • Strategies
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  • By James Gwartney and David Macpherson |
  • May 3, 2022
Economics professors: Fed’s fingerprints are all over inflation debacle

"It is unbelievable that any member of the Board of Governors could think the Fed could finance a $4 trillion increase in federal spending without causing inflation."

  • Opinion
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  • By Jean Gruss |
  • March 18, 2016
Viral cousins

Two Florida Gulf Coast University virologists are busy testing treatments and vaccines for mosquito-borne diseases, including Zika virus.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Jennifer Grondahl, 39

President, YMCA Foundation of Sarasota

  • Class of 2014
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  • By Business Observer Staff |
  • October 10, 2014
Summer Martin, 36

Marketing and Events Coordinator, Pasco Economic Development Council

  • Class of 2014
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • January 16, 2015
Sea what happens

The aquarium industry has emerged from an industry downturn. Several Gulf Coast businesses have dipped into the rebound.

  • Entrepreneurs
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • June 30, 2024
Benderson buys Naples TJ Maxx, Walmart-anchored shopping center

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Lakeland credit union buys a Venice property, a Chicago developer opens one apartment complex and sells another in Tampa, and a health care company signs a $4 million lease in Port Charlotte.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 26, 2024
Oregon coffee shop chain opening in Fort Myers, expanding in SWFL

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a Tampa REIT keeps growing, a Lakewood Ranch dentist office sells, and luxury and affordable projects share the spotlight.

  • Florida
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • April 2, 2025
Hooters seeks $40M in financing as founders reach deal to take over

The parent company's bankruptcy provides an opportunity for the chain's Clearwater founders to buy locations and run franchise operations.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • May 18, 2025
Plant City approves 3.4M-square-foot, 410-acre industrial project

In the week's top commercial real estate news, a land company buys a new Lakewood Ranch HQ, questions linger about Foot Locker's St. Pete HQ move, and a new Naples shopping center is full.

  • Florida
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  • By Mark Gordon |
  • April 5, 2025
Massachusetts restaurant software firm grows Florida presence

Forbes Snyder, which has been in business for nearly 90 years, is expanding with an office in Fort Myers.

  • Charlotte–Lee–Collier
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  • By Jay Heater |
  • April 1, 2024
East Manatee County golf-hotel-residential project underway

COVID-19 delayed but didn't derail a unique golf-resort project in one of the fastest growing parts of the region. "This (area) is where everything is happening," the project executive says.

  • Manatee-Sarasota
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  • By Louis Llovio |
  • February 14, 2024
Dolphin drives $32 million Clearwater aquarium upgrade

Winter the dolphin changed the fortunes of a once sleepy aquarium near Clearwater Beach.

  • Tampa Bay-Lakeland
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